Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

About the Author

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is a distinguished historian and professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she specializes in the American South, gender, and race. Her groundbreaking research challenges traditional narratives by illuminating the active roles women played in the institution of slavery, drawing on extensive archival evidence to reveal uncomfortable truths about complicity and power. In her acclaimed book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Jones-Rogers uncovers the hidden history of female slaveholders, demonstrating how white women not only owned enslaved people but also participated in the violence and economic exploitation that sustained the system. A recipient of numerous awards, including the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, she continues to influence scholarly discourse on intersectional histories of oppression and resistance through her incisive scholarship and public engagement.