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Whitney N. Fields is a PhD Candidate in History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She received a B.A. in History and American Studies from the College of William and Mary in 2015. Her work combines carceral studies, urban history, and slavery and emancipation studies to chronicle the long history of American incarceration. Whitney’s current project, “Captive in Promised Land: Black Lives, Confinement, and Incarceration in Nineteenth-Century Urban America,” is a history of the incarceration and labors of Black people in the early nineteenth-century urban North. This work foregrounds Black Americans as subjects within the nation’s first prisons and penitentiaries and examines how they figured into and challenged nineteenth-century discourse on abolition, prison reform, and criminalization.

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