Whitney Nell Stewart is a Southern historian whose work focuses on slavery and plantations in the nineteenth-century United States. Her award-winning book, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations, examines how enslaved people sought to transform sites of coercion and violence into places they could call home. She’s at work on her next two big projects: a history of Texas told through the history of Varner-Hogg plantation; and the first book-length exploration of the entangled origins of American wine and slavery.

Stewart is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Learn more about Dr. Stewart’s work and contact her with any questions, comments, or opportunities.