Nikki Berg Burin, history lecturer, had an article published in a book titled "Family Values in the Old South," which was edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour.

Berg Burin’s article, “A Family Firm: The Marital and Business Partnership of Richard and Ann Archer,” examines how the business demands of a large-scale slave and cotton operation supported and undermined the efforts of an absentee planter and his plantation manager wife to create a companionate marriage.

Berg Burin is finishing up her first semester at NDSU. Her research focuses on married women who administered their husbands' antebellum slave plantations in their absence. More specifically, she studies Richard and Ann Archer of Mississippi who together operated up to eight plantations and owned more than 500 slaves. Her research examines the ways that women, like Ann, negotiated with overseers, slaves and their business-partner husbands in order to successfully manage the family business and still maintain their sense of self as elite southern women.