Dr Liana Beatrice Valerio
About Me
Teaching Fellow in History, specialising in the History of the Americas, the History of Slavery, and the History of Emotions.
My research focusses on slavery in the United States and Cuba. My book project (an adaptation of my doctoral thesis, currently in progress) explores the strategy of prolific white enslavers who utilised and performed emotion in their odious attempts to perpetuate enslavement well into the nineteenth century.
My book project theorises that confidence and fear – the emotions it principally considers – were deployed strategically by White enslaving men in Cuba and South Carolina to deflect criticism; to imbue the sadistic violence they enacted upon enslaved individuals with intentional emotional messages; to reassure investors and enslavers of the economic reliability of slave societies; and to fiercely reaffirm White supremacy following incidents of revolt and rebellion. The determination to control and censor the emotional narrative surrounding enslavement was of paramount importance to nineteenth century enslavers, and it was a fundamental facet of their brutality.
Teaching 2024/5
Making of the Modern World - HI153. Module Convenor.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi153/
A History of the United States - HI111.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/HI111
Previous Teaching at Warwick
Space, Place and Movement in Atlantic Slave Societies: Brazil, Cuba, and West Africa, 1791-1888 (HI3S9)
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/HI3S9
Latin America: Themes and Problems (HI115)
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/HI115
Professional Profile
2023 - Present | Teaching Fellow in History, University of Warwick
2022 | Lecturer in Histories of the Global South, De Montfort University
2021 - 2022 | Teaching Fellow in Latin American History, University of Warwick
2020 - 2021 | Research Assistant, La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the AmericasLink opens in a new window
Published Articles
- Valerio, LB. 2024. "The Performance and Appearance of Confidence Among the Enslavers of South Carolina and Cuba."Link opens in a new window Slavery & Abolition, 45:1, pp. 27-44. doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2023.2260181
- Valerio, LB. 2023. "Fearful loyalty: The strategic deployment of emotion by the Cuban proslavery elite, 1830-1850.Link opens in a new window" Atlantic Studies (issue ahead of print.) doi: 10.1080/14788810.2023.2240002
Book Reviews
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Valerio, LB. 2023. Teresa Prados-Torreira, The Power of Their Will: Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021) [Book Review]. New West Indian Guide, 97(1-2), pp. 158-159. (10.1163/22134360-09701050)
- Valerio, LB. 2021. Alejandro de la Fuente & Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, 1500–1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) [Book Review]. Slavery and Abolition, 42(3), pp. 655-656. (10.1080/0144039X.2021.1949905)
- Valerio, LB. 2021. Lawrence Aje & Catherine Armstrong eds., The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas (London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) [Book Review]. Social History, 46(2), pp. 224-226. (10.1080/03071022.2021.1896239)
- Valerio, LB. 2019. Eugene Genovese, The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) [Book Review]. Journal of American Studies, 53(3), pp. 837-838. (10.1017/S0021875819000513Link opens in a new window)
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Valerio, LB. 2019. Paul D. Naish, Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) [Book Review]. Slavery & Abolition, 40(1), pp. 215-216. (10.1080/0144039X.2019.1565433)
Academic Background
2015 - 2019 University of Warwick, (PhD) History. Co-supervised by Professor Tim Lockley & Dr Camillia Cowling.
2014 - 2015 University of Oxford, St Antony's College, (MSt) U.S. History.
2009 - 2013 University of Warwick, BA (Hons) History, Literature and Cultures of the Americas.
Memberships
Within Warwick | Latin America at Warwick Network (LAWN); Global History Research Centre (GHCC).
Other | British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH); Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH); Cuba Research Forum (University of Nottingham).
Dr Liana Beatrice Valerio
Liana dot Valerio at warwick dot ac dot uk
Faculty of Arts 3.78
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