Kathryn Benjamin Golden, Ph.D. is a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware and teaches courses in early African American history, Black women’s history, and slave resistance in the Atlantic world. She is currently writing a book entitled, This Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp. Her work has been published in the Journal of African American Studies, Slavery and Abolition, The Black Scholar, and the Winterthur Portfolio.
Melanie Y. White, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean Studies in the Department of African American Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University, an M.A. in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests include hemispheric Black feminist politics, Black diasporic women’s art, and the histories, politics, and visual cultures of Black Latin America and the Caribbean.