Dr Liz Barnes

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Lecturer
- Convener of HSHAD: Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
Areas of interest
I am primarily interested in histories of sexual violence, particularly in relation to the social changes ushered in by the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States in the mid nineteenth century. More broadly, my research focusses on slavery in the US South, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period, with a focus on how Black women navigated the constraints imposed by racism and patriarchy.
My PhD thesis examined Black women's relationships with three authorities in their lives: Black men, law enforcers, and agents of the federal government. I have forthcoming publications drawn from this research that examines the evolution of policing in the United States and the nature of gendered relationships within formerly enslaved families and communities.
Postgraduate supervision
I have supervised MA students working on histories of race and gender in the United States.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Part 1 Option: Rape in the United States: from Colonisation to Civil Rights
- Part 2 Option: The American Civil War
- Part 3 Topic: Policing the United States
Postgraduate
MA Option: Resisting and Abolishing Slavery in the United States
Research projects
I am currently converting my PhD thesis into a book provisionally titled Voicing Violation: Rape and Race in Slavery and Freedom.
Publications
2021
- Barnes, E.
(2021) “The girl did not recognise him as her husband”: freedmen, sexual violence, and gendered authority after emancipation.American Nineteenth Century History, 22(3).pp. 289-306. ISSN: 1743-7903 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2021.2022476
Publications
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Barnes, E.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7873-7975 (2023) Policing emancipation: white law enforcer sexual violence against black women in the reconstruction US south, 1865-1877. In: Turner, J. , Johnston, H. , Pluskota, M. , (eds.) Policing Women Histories in the Western World, 1800 to 1950. Routledge , London. ISBN: 9780367558178
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Barnes, E.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7873-7975 and Doddington, D. (2021) Engaging with sources: slave narratives. Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method)
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Barnes, E.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7873-7975 (2021) “The girl did not recognise him as her husband”: freedmen, sexual violence, and gendered authority after emancipation. American Nineteenth Century History , 22 (3). pp. 289-306. ISSN: 1743-7903 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2021.2022476