We begin with sad news. The Junto learned a few days ago that Stephanie Camp, professor at the University of Washington and author of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, died on April 2 after a battle with cancer. The Seattle Times published an obituary this week, quoting Drew Gilpin Faust: “Students heard her courage and saw her integrity and learned from it in ways they never forgot. Her scholarship did the same.” The Rice University History Department, where Camp worked for two years, has posted a brief tribute. Caleb McDaniel, who worked with Camp at Rice, has also posted a longer personal reflection. The University of Washington is soliciting donations in her honor for the Stephanie M. H. Camp Lecture Fund for the History of Race and Gender.

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