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Phone: 724-503-1001 x6266
Office: Old Main 209C
Email: jbernier@lb0098.com

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Julia Bernier, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Academic Program: History

Degrees: Ph.D. African American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A. History, The City College of New York; B.F.A. Theory, Criticism, and History of Art, Pratt Institute

Julia W. 伯尼尔在华盛顿完成了她的非裔美国人研究博士学位.E.B. Du Bois Department at UMass Amherst. Before joining W & J she taught at the University of North Alabama and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of Slavery at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on the lives of enslaved people, slavery, and abolition in the nineteenth century United States. She is also interested in studying and addressing slavery’s afterlife on university campuses and beyond. 她目前正在写一本关于美国自助购物的书. 

Publications

  • “’Never be free without trustin’ some person:’ Networking and Buying Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States,” Slavery & Abolition, 40:2 (2019)
  • “保释基金、购买自由和废除历史”,《det365app》(2020) Link to entry
  • “21世纪废除奴隶制的历史根源”,《det365app》(2021) Link to entry
  • "'In Reference to the Death of Isham:' Slavery, Law, and Their Afterlives" with Justin Simard, Journal of Southern History (2022)
  • 自由的货币:美国的奴隶制和自我购买, under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press