Cassandra Berman

Cassandra Berman

Editor

Cassandra Berman is an archivist and historian specializing in the history of women and gender. She holds a PhD from Brandeis University and an MLS and MA from the University of Maryland. Her historical research focuses on maternity and print culture in colonial America and the early United States.

Maternity at War

Maternal Grief in Black and White: Enslaved Mothers and Antislavery Literature on the Eve of War

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Mrs. Tamor and her six children. Helen and her son, a child of “tender years.” Margaret Garner, an “affectionate mother” of four, also pregnant with a fifth child. An unnamed woman whose infant would soon be taken from her and “whose sufferings, on account of the separation from her child, seemed greater than for her… Read more →

Clio Talks

Captivity, Breastmilk, and the Myth of Colonial Supremacy: An Interview with Carla Cevasco

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Carla Cevasco is the winner of the second annual Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article. Her winning submission, “‘Look’d Like Milk’: Colonialism and Infant Feeding in the English Atlantic World,” appeared in the Journal of Early American History in 2020. Dr. Cevasco is an assistant professor of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her… Read more →