Participant Info
- First Name
- Diane
- Last Name
- Miller Sommerville
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- sommervi@binghamton.edu
- Affiliation
- Binghamton University, SUNY
- Website URL
- https://www.binghamton.edu/history/people/faculty/sommerville.html
- Keywords
- Civil War, women and gender, 19th-century South, slavery and race, sexuality and rape, PTSD, suicide
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m a specialist in 19th-century U.S. Southern history whose first book, RAPE AND RACE IN THE 19TH-CENTURY SOUTH (2004) focused on racial, gender and class relations through the lens of sexual assault and legal sources. My 2nd book, ABERRATION OF MIND: SUICIDE AND SUFFERING IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA SOUTH (2018) looks at psychological suffering and suicidal behavior among Confederate soldiers and veterans and their families, as well as the enslaved and freedpeople.
- Recent Publications
ABERRATION OF MIND: SUICIDE AND SUFFERING IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA SOUTH (UNC Press, 2018)
RAPE AND RACE IN THE 19TH-CENTURY SOUTH (UNC Press, 2004)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @ProfSommerville
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Gender, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
