Kathryn Benjamin Golden
Biography
Kathryn Benjamin Golden is a historian committed to interdisciplinary research and teaching that urges critical connections between early histories of Black opposition and the unfinished business of freedom. Her work focuses on histories of marronage and rebellion in the U.S. South, as well as their legacies. Dr. Golden's areas of specialization include 18th and 19th Century U.S. Slavery, Comparative Slave Resistance in the Atlantic World, Public History, and Collective Memory. She is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware.
Teaching and Research Interests
Colonial and Antebellum African American Life; Black Women's Resistance; Geographies of the Enslaved; Black Ecologies; Fugitivity; Race and Public History; Historical Memory and Identity; Qualitative Methods of the African Diaspora.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies, Department of African American Studies, Ph.D. 2018
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This Insurgent Ground
May 19, 2026 | Written by CAS Communication StaffBlack Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp -
The Future of Africana Studies
October 23, 2024 | Written by Megan M.F. EverhartThe inaugural James E. Newton Symposium honored Newton’s legacy of activism and people-centered scholarship -
History as a Change-Making Tool
June 16, 2023 | Written by Amy WolfUD Assistant Professor Kathryn Benjamin Golden explains the significance of Juneteenth
