Jennie Katherine Williams, Ph.D.

Jennie K. Williams, Ph.D. is a historian with expertise in American slavery and the domestic slave trade, digital methodologies, data and data ethics. Her book, Oceans of Kinfolk: the Coastwise Traffic of Enslaved Persons to New Orleans, 1820-1860, is forthcoming from UNC Press. Dr. Williams is the author of four databases: Oceans of Kinfolk, Louisiana Kindred, Named in Affectionate Terms, and Remembered by Name. She is also the Executive Director of Kinfolkology: an open archive, database collective, and collaborative community dedicated to remembering enslaved people as kin and kindred in full partnership with Descendant communities.