Edward E. Baptist
Associate Professor
Office: 320 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-1881
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: eeb36@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1997
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University, 1992
Courses
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Recent Publications and Awards
Books
[Edited with Stephanie Camp, University of Washington] New Studies in American Slavery, under contract to University of Georgia Press. Anticipated publication in spring 2005.
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
Articles
“’Stol’ An’ Fetched Here’: Enslaved Migration: Ex Slave Narratives, and Vernacular History,” in New Studies in American Slavery [see above.]
“The Absent Subject: African-American Masculinity and Forced Migration to the Antebellum Plantation Frontier,” in Southern Masculinities, Craig T. Friend and Lorri Glover, eds., forthcoming from University of Georgia Press, 2004.
“Cuffy,’ ‘Fancy Maids,’ and ‘One-Eyed Men’: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” (reprint) in Walter Johnson, ed., Internal Passages: The Domestic Slave Trade in the United States, forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2004.
“Land Speculation” and “Slavery,” The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., (Santa Barbara and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2002), 179-180 and 317-319.
“Cuffy,’ ‘Fancy Maids,’ and ‘One-Eyed Men’: Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” American Historical Review CVI (December 2001,) 1619-1650.
“’My Mind Is To Drown You and Leave You Behind’: ‘Omie Wise,’ Intimate Violence, and Masculinity,” in Crossing the Threshold: Domestic Violence in Early America, Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. (New York and London, 1999), 94-110.
“Accidental Ethnography in an Antebellum Southern Newspaper: Snell’s Homecoming Festival.” Journal of American History LXXXIV (March 1998), 1355-1383.
“Slavery in Florida,” Macmillan Encyclopedia of Slavery, vol. 1, (New York, 1998), 334-35.
“John Murrell,” The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, vol. 2 (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, 1997), 448.
Awards
Rembert Patrick Award for the Best Book in Florida History, 2002, Florida Historical Society.
Southern Studies Fellowship, University of North Carolina Libraries, Summer 2002.
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers and Scholars, 2000-2001.
Short-term Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2000.
John Hope Franklin Center Research Award, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, 2000.
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2000-2001 (Declined).
Mellon Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2001 (Declined).
American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, 2001 (Declined).
General Research Support Award, University of Miami, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.
Orovitz Research Award, University of Miami, Summer 1999, Summer 2000.
J. Franklin Jameson Fellow, American Historical Association, 1998-1999 (Declined).
Albert J. Beveridge Travel Grant, Fall 1997.
Mellon Final-Year Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-1997.
Annenberg Research Awards, Spring and Summer, 1996 and Spring, 1997.