Manisha Sinha

Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.[1]

Manisha Sinha
ParentSrinivas Kumar Sinha
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineReconstruction
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Connecticut

Early life

Her father was Srinivas Kumar Sinha, an Indian Army general.[2] She received her PhD from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize.

Career

Sinha's research focuses on early United States history, especially the transnational histories of slavery and abolition and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Sinha is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000),[3][4][5][6][7] which was named one of the ten best books on slavery in Politico in 2015.[8] Sinha is also a contributing author of The Abolitionist Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2012), and co-editor of African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century (Prentice Hall, 2004) and Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History (Columbia University Press, 2007).

She was awarded the Chancellor's Medal, the highest honor bestowed on faculty, and received the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Advising at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she taught for over twenty years. She was elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, and was appointed to the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lecture Series.

Sinha has received two year-long research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowships from the Charles Warren Center and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, the Howard Foundation fellowship at Brown University, and the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral fellowship from the Institute of the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She is a member of the Council of Advisors for the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center, New York Public Library, co-editor of the "Race and the Atlantic World, 1700–1900", series of the University of Georgia Press, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Civil War Era.

Works
  • The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 9780807825716, OCLC 469742367
  • The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780300181371, OCLC 1039313848[9][10][11][12]

References
  1. "'The Slave's Cause' wins the 19th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews. November 7, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  2. "No, Kanye, That's Not How It Happened". UConn Today. January 24, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  3. Holden, Charles J. (2001). "Review of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 102 (4): 364–366. ISSN 0038-3082. JSTOR 27570532.
  4. Calhoon, Robert M. (December 1, 2001). "The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (review)". Civil War History. 47 (4): 353–354. doi:10.1353/cwh.2001.0052. ISSN 1533-6271.
  5. O'Donovan, Susan E. (November 1, 2001). "The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 32 (3): 490–491. doi:10.1162/002219502753364533. ISSN 1530-9169. S2CID 142226445.
  6. Startup, Kenneth M. (2001). "Review of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 60 (3): 315–317. ISSN 0004-1823. JSTOR 40023065.
  7. Ford, Lacy K. (2003). "Review of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina". The Journal of Southern History. 69 (1): 159–161. doi:10.2307/30039860. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 30039860.
  8. "Ten Books on Slavery You Need to Read". Politico Magazine. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  9. "Editors' Choice". The New York Times. March 3, 2016. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  10. "The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha". Times Higher Education (THE). May 19, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  11. Rothman, Adam (April 2016). "The Truth About Abolition". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  12. Berlin, Ira (February 26, 2016). "'The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition', by Manisha Sinha". The New York Times. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
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