Rate My Professor Daina Berry

Berry's major publications include Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (University of Illinois Press, 2007), The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon Press, 2017), which received the Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Award in 2018, and A Black Women’s History of the United States (co-authored with Kali Nicole Gross, Beacon Press, 2020). She co-edited Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (University of Georgia Press, 2014) and Sexuality & Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (University of Georgia Press, 2018), and served as chief editor of Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2012). At UT Austin, she received the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award (2019) and held fellowships such as the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History and Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History. Her work has profoundly influenced understandings of enslaved human capital, slave mortality, and gender dynamics in slavery, appearing in key volumes like Slavery’s Capitalism (2016) and After Piketty (2017). Berry has contributed to public history through PBS appearances, Wikipedia projects on Black women, and curating series for A&E Biography.