History scholar Kelly Kennington has been selected to be the Law
and Society Post-Doctoral Fellow for 2009-10 at the University of
Wisconsin Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies.
Kennington, who will complete her Ph.D. in history at Duke
University in Spring 2009, holds an M.A. in history from Duke
(2004) and a B.A. from Tulane University (2002). Her dissertation
is titled, "River of Injustice: St. Louis’s Freedom Suits and the
Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America.”
Kennington has received numerous awards for her work, including the
Anne Firor Scott Research Award, the Price Research Fellowship, and
the Bass Fellowship at Duke, and has presented several papers,
including "'In Contempt and Defiance of the Ordinance': The Nature
of Freedom in a Border Community," at the American Society for
Legal History. She was a co-organizer of the First Annual North
Carolina History Thesis Writers Conference in 2006 and the Duke-UNC
Southern Studies Seminar, 2005-06.
Kennington’s next project will examine the complex relationships
between slavery and freedom across the Border States. After
completion of the year-long post-doctoral fellowship, she will join
the faculty of Auburn University as an assistant professor of
history.
This article appears in the categories: Articles
