Cathryn Perini

Education

M.A. University of Reading (2021)
B.A. University of Kentucky (2020)

Biography

Cathryn Perini is a third-year Ph.D. Candidate studying 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.