Wendy Warren

Title
Associate Professor of History
Office Phone
Office
204 Dickinson Hall
Office Hours

On Leave 2023-2024

Bio/Description

Professor Wendy Warren specializes in the history of colonial North America and the early modern Atlantic World.

Professor Warren's first book, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America (2016) won the Organization of American Historians' 2017 Merle Curti Social History Prize, and was a Finalist for the  2017 Pulitzer Prize, the 2017 Berkshire Conference Book Prize, and the 2017 Harriet Tubman Prize. She has also published in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Slavery and Abolition, among other venues.

Professor Warren is currently writing about prisons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Teaching and Research Interests

Professor Warren's teaching and research interests include colonial and revolutionary North America, the Atlantic world, comparative slavery, carceral studies, and gender and sexuality studies.

Advisee(s):
Area of Interest
(In alphabetical order)
Colonialism & Post Colonialism
Gender & Sexuality
Labor History
Microhistory
Slavery
Social History
Theory of History
Home Department & Other Affiliations
History
Period
17th & 18th Centuries
Region
North America
United States