Kaisha Esty
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American St, 232
Assistant Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Assistant Professor, History
BA University of NottinghamMA University of Nottingham
PHD Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kaisha Esty
Kaisha Esty is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She is a historian of slavery and its aftermath, sexuality, empire, and Black womanhood in the nineteenth-century. Dr. Esty is working on her first book project, titled, Weaponizing Virtue: Black Women and Intimate Resistance in the Age of U.S. Expansion. Her article, “I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me”: Black Women and Girls and the Battle Over Labor and Sexual Consent in Union-Occupied Territory,” originally published in Labor: Studies in Working Class History, won the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for Best Article from the Association of Black Women Historians. Forthcoming works will appear in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History and Slavery & Abolition. Her research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Andrew Mellon Fund, the Warren and Beatrice Susman Fellowship, the American Historical Association, and the African American Intellectual History Society.
Dr. Esty earned her BA and Masters in American Studies at the University of Nottingham. She holds a Ph.D. in African American and Women's and Gender History from Rutgers University.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
By appointment.
Courses
Fall 2023
AFAM 254 - 01
Race and Sex in America
AFAM 285 - 01
Gender and Slavery