Check out Professor Sinha's article with The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/manisha-sinha/we-are-all-americans-in-t_b_161212.html

 

 

 

 

Manisha Sinha, Associate Professor

Office Information

Office:	Room 303	New Africa House
Phone:	413-545-4779	(413) 545-2751
Hours:

 

 

Current Course Information

Fall 2009:		On Sabbatical
Spring 2010:		On Sabbatical

 

Brief Bio
Manisha Sinha is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina ( University of North Carolina Press , 2000) and 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). She received her doctorate in American History from Columbia University in 1994, where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize, and 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 a faculty fellowship from the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research fellowship from Harvard University , the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill and the President's and Whiting Fellowships from Columbia University . In 2003, she was appointed to the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lecture Series and she 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.

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)