Wendy Warren | |
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Born | San Diego, California, USA |
Academic background | |
Education | M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D, history, 2008, Yale University |
Thesis | Enslaved Africans in New England, 1638-1700 (2008) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Notable works | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America |
Wendy Anne Warren is an American historian. Her book New England Bound won a Merle Curti Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is also an Associate professor of History at Princeton University.
Warren was born and raised in San Diego, California. [1] She attended Yale University for her Master's degree and PhD. [2]
Warren joined the faculty at Princeton University after completing a junior research fellowship at the University of Oxford. [2] From 2014 until 2017, she held the university's Philip and Beulah Rollins Preceptorship in the Department of History. [3] In her final year of the preceptorship, she published New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America through Boni & Liveright. [4] The idea for the book came to her as a doctoral student at Yale, when she came across a 17th century account of the rape of a New England slave. [5] It won the 2017 Merle Curti Award as the best book published in American social history and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. [6]
Following the publication of her book, Warren was promoted to Associate professor [7] and received the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. [8]
Wendy Warren | |
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Born | San Diego, California, USA |
Academic background | |
Education | M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D, history, 2008, Yale University |
Thesis | Enslaved Africans in New England, 1638-1700 (2008) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Notable works | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America |
Wendy Anne Warren is an American historian. Her book New England Bound won a Merle Curti Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is also an Associate professor of History at Princeton University.
Warren was born and raised in San Diego, California. [1] She attended Yale University for her Master's degree and PhD. [2]
Warren joined the faculty at Princeton University after completing a junior research fellowship at the University of Oxford. [2] From 2014 until 2017, she held the university's Philip and Beulah Rollins Preceptorship in the Department of History. [3] In her final year of the preceptorship, she published New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America through Boni & Liveright. [4] The idea for the book came to her as a doctoral student at Yale, when she came across a 17th century account of the rape of a New England slave. [5] It won the 2017 Merle Curti Award as the best book published in American social history and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. [6]
Following the publication of her book, Warren was promoted to Associate professor [7] and received the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. [8]