Margaret M.R. Kellow

Chair & Acting Graduate Chair, Department of History
Associate Professor
PhD, Yale University, 1993

Research Interests

Professor Kellow's special interest is in 19th Century American History, and in particular Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World and the History of Women. She also teaches Religion and American Culture.  Her research centers on Slavery and Antislavery, Gender & Race in 19th Century America.

Publications

"The Greek Slave: Elision and Disjunction in American Antislavery Imagery" in Trans/Oceanic, Trans/American, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies , Joćo Ferriera Duarte, Marta Pacheco Pinto and Susana Araśjo, eds. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).

"Hard Struggles of Doubt: Abolitionists and the Problem of Slave Redemption," in Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy, Richard Wilson and Richard Brown, eds., (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009)

"'We Are No Less Friendly to Liberty Than They': British Antislavery Activists Respond to the Crisis in the American Colonies," in English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele, Nancy Rhoden, ed., (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2007)

"Conflicting Imperatives: Black and White American Abolitionists Debate the Question of Slave Redemption," in Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption, Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl, eds., (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007).

"The Oriental Imaginary: Constructions of Female Bondage in Women’s Antislavery Discourse." in The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Race, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, Steven Mintz and John Stauffer, eds., (Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).

Duties Are Ours: A Life of Lydia Maria Child, 1802 - 1880 (Currently under consideration by the University of North Carolina Press).

"‘For the Sake of Suffering Kansas’: Lydia Maria Child, Gender and the Politics of the 1950s," Journal of Women’s History (Fall 1993).

"Indentured Servitude in Eighteenth Century Maryland," Histoire Sociale/Social History 17 (November 1984).

"Bryan Sheehan," in The Human Tradition in Colonial America edited by Ian K. Steele & Nancy Rhoden (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1999).

"The Divided Mind of Antislavery Feminism: Lydia Maria Child’s Construction of African American Womanhood," in Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating perspectives on the American Past edited by Patricia Morton (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1996).

Review of Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780 - 1860 Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998, Reviews in American History, 27:4 December 1999) 526-533.

"The Oriental Imaginary: Constructions of Female Bondage in Women’s Antislavery Discourse," in The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Race and the Ambiguities of American Reform, John Stauffer and Steven Mintz. Eds., (forthcoming 2004 from The University of Massachusetts Press).

Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

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Current Courses

 Courses Taught

  • 4396F - Religion and Spirituality in 19th Century American History, 1776-1926
  • HIS 3701E- Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
  • HIS 9306B - Religion and American Culture
  • HIS 9850A - Methods and Practice in History