Daina Ramey Berry

Daina Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Berry is a historian, a “scholar of the enslaved,” and a specialist in gender and slavery, as well as Black women’s history, in the United States. She is the award-winning author/editor of 11 books. Her recent publication, A Black Women’s History of the United States, co-authored with Kali Nicole Gross, is an empowering testament of Black women’s ability to build communities in the face of oppression and their continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Professor Berry completed her BA, MA, and PhD in African American Studies and U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles.