Anne Kerth

Anne Kerth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Her research focuses on 19th-century African-American artisans in the American South, intersecting themes of gender, race, labor, and social history. She earned her PhD in 2019 with a dissertation titled "Art, Trade, and Mystery": African-American Artisans in Nineteenth-Century South Carolina, supervised by Tera W. Hunter.

Her areas of expertise include U.S. 19th-century history, the American South, and interdisciplinary studies of race, labor, and cultural production. While no recent publications or awards are explicitly listed, her work bridges social and political history to illuminate marginalized voices in Southern history.