Participant Info
- First Name
- Vanessa
- Last Name
- Holden
- Country
- United States
- State
- KY Kentucky
- vanessaholden@uky.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Kentucky
- Website URL
- vanessamholden.squarespace.com
- Keywords
- slavery, women, gender, sexuality, children, resistance, rebellion, Virginia, antebellum, southern, south, sex, sexuality, lgbtq, queer, same-gender loving
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Vanessa M. Holden an assistant professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Holden’s current book project, tentatively titled, Surviving Southampton: Gender, Community, Resistance and Survival During the Southampton Rebellion of 1831(University of Illinois Press), explores the contributions that African American women and children, free and enslaved, made to the Southampton Rebellion of 1831, also called Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Dr. Holden’s work and writing have been published in Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Perspectives on History, Process: A Blog for American History, and The Rumpus. She also blogs for The Junto: A Group Blog on American History and Black Perspectives. In addition to her work on enslaved women and slave rebellion, Dr. Holden also co-organizes the Queering Slavery Working Group with Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University). Her second project, Forming Intimacies: Queer Kinship and Resistance in the Antebellum American Atlantic, will focus on same-gender loving individuals and American slavery. Follow her on Twitter @drvholden
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @drvholden
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
