T. Dionne Bailey is an Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University, where she specializes in African American women's history, carceral studies, southern history, and feminist theory. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute. Her research on the history of crime and punishment in Parchman Prison earned her the Franklin L. Riley Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society. In addition to coediting the Southern Cultures special issue, “The Abolitionist South,” she is currently finalizing her first book-length manuscript, “Daughters of Jim Crow’s Injustice: Mississippi, Mass Incarceration, and the Business of Black Women’s Bodies at Parchman Penitentiary, 1890-1980.” Her work continues to interrogate the intersections of race, gender, and the American carceral state.