Erin Shearer is an Associate Lecturer in History and Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading. She completed her AHRC SWW-DTP funded PhD at the University of Reading in December 2023. Her research interests center on slavery, race, and gender in the antebellum US South. She has published aspects of her research in the Women’s History Review and has publications forthcoming in American Nineteenth Century History and edited collections, including Jonathan Jones and Megan Bever (eds.), The Civil War on Drugs (UGA Press). Shearer has been the recipient of research awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and the University of Missouri’s Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. Her current book project investigates enslaved women’s violent resistance against overseers and enslavers, connecting concerns with resistance to wider historical questions over power, exploitation, and survival in antebellum slavery.
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