Cathryn Perini
Ph.D. Candidate
Address/Office Hours
Minor Hall 107, Tuesdays 10:15am-12:15pm
Fields/Specialties
Slavery Studies
Women and Gender World History
African American History 1865-present
19th Century United States History
Education
M.A. University of Virginia (2025)
M.A. University of Reading (2021)
B.A. University of Kentucky (2020)
Biography
Cathryn Perini is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate studying the legal history of slave hiring in the antebellum South. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BA in History in 2020 and from the University of Reading with her MA in History in 2021. Her master's thesis looked at the capitalistic market of hiring out enslaved labor, how enslaved wet nurses might have experienced forcible relocation for bodily exploitation, and how archival silences impact the ways that historians might navigate intentional speculation within their research. Her current research interrogates slave hiring as a practice that was dictated by social connections.
Courses Taught
WGS 2100 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
WGS 2125 - Race and Power in Gender and Sexuality (Spring 2025)
AAS 1010 - Introduction to Africa and its Diasporas (Fall 2026)