Dr. Scully has her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan.  Her research interests focus on comparative women's and gender history, with an emphasis on slavery and emancipation, and, more recently, on the relevance of history and feminist theory to ensuring women's rights in post-conflict societies. She is the author of Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (Heinemann, Social History of Africa Series, Portsmouth NH; James Currey London; David Philip, South Africa, 1997). Her co-edited collection with Diana Paton of the University of Newcastle, Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World came out in 2005 with Duke University Press.  She is the author of the AHA pamphlet, Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective (2006).  Her most recent book is Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a ghost story and a biography, co-authored with Clifton Crais (Princeton, Fall 2008).   Dr Scully teaches courses on gender, violence and genocide, post-colonial feminist theory, and feminist approaches to international human rights. Dr Scully serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Women’s History, The Journal of British Studies, and Social Dynamics. She is Deputy Editor of The Women’s History Review. Dr Scully is on the executive committee of the Institute for Developing Nations, a partnership between Emory University and The Carter Center, which focuses on collaborative research regarding issues of poverty and development.