Author: Adrienne Petty

Adrienne Petty is an associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary. Her research focuses on the history of agriculture and rural life in the modern United States South. She is co-author with Mark Schultz of Our Land: Southern Black Farmers Since Emancipation (Oxford University Press, December 2026). She also is author of the award-winning book Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her current project explores the transformation of farming in the countryside surrounding Washington, D.C.