Stephanie Camp, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetStephanie Camp
American historian
Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1968
Date of Death: 02-Apr-2014
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Stephanie Camp
- Stephanie M.
- Camp (March 27, 1968 – April 2, 2014) was an American feminist historian.
- Her book, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004), led to a new understanding of how female slaves resisted their captivity in the 1800s.
- The book won the Lillian Smith Book Award for New Voices in Non-Fiction and an Honorable Mention by the John Hope Franklin Prize; it was short-listed for the Washington State Book Award.She co-edited an anthology, New Studies in the History of American Slavery (2006), which was inspired by a symposium she organized at the University of Washington in 2002, called "New Studies in American Slavery", as well as a follow-up symposium organized by Herman Bennett at Rutgers University.Camp grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she attended H.C.
- Lea Elementary School and graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls.
- She earned her bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's degree from Yale University.
- She worked from 2008 to 2010 as an associate professor at Rice University, and most recently before her death she worked as a professor at the University of Washington.In 2007, Camp and a graduate student at the University of Washington organized a protest about Woodland Park Zoo's Maasai Journey program, which featured Maasai cultural elements in a zoo setting; Camp argued that it referenced a time when African people were grouped together with animals at world fairs.
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