ANTHONY E. KAYE
Anthony E. Kaye is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, specializing in slavery and emancipation. His book Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (UNC 2007) was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
He was an assistant editor at the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, where he worked on Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867, forthcoming from UNC Press.
His articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and Slavery & Abolition, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently writing a book on the Nat Turner Revolt in Southampton, Virginia, to be published by Hill and Wang.
He is a faculty affiliate of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University, where he is associate professor of history.