Manisha Sinha, Professor

*Professor Sinha was awarded the Charles Warren Faculty Fellowship in American History from Harvard University for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Office Information

Office:
Room 303
New Africa House
Phone:
413-545-4779
(413) 545-2751
Hours:
MW 10:00-11:00 a.m.
And by Appointment


 

 

Current Course Information

Fall 2008:
AfroAm 132
Afro-American History: 1619-1860
AfroAm 605
African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery
  AfroAm 701 Major Works in Afro-American Studies I
  AfroAm 691D Major Works in Afro-American Studies III


 

 


Brief Bio
Manisha Sinha is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . She received her doctorate in American History from Columbia University ; her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment in the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. She has also received Harvard University 's faculty fellowship awarded by the Charles Warren Center in American History and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. Her other fellowships include the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and the President's and Whiting Fellowships from Columbia University . She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina ( University of North Carolina Press , 2000) as well as co-editor of African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century Vols. I & II (Prentice Hall, 2004) and Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History ( Columbia University Press, 2007). In 2003, she was appointed to the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lecture Series and is series editor for “Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900,” University of Georgia Press . Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth century United States ' history, especially the history of the south, slavery, abolition and antislavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. She is currently working on a book on African Americans and the movement to abolish slavery, which is under contract with Harvard University Press.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History, with Penny Von Eschen, eds.
(Columbia University Press, 2007)

African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from
the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century, with John H. Bracey, eds. Volume One: To 1877
(New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2004)

African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from
the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century, with John H. Bracey, eds. Volume Two: From 1865 to the Present.
(New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2004)
The Counter-Revolution of Slavery: Politics
and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
(Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000)