Manisha Sinha

Adjunct Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies

Office: 303 New Africa House
Telephone: (413) 545-4779
Fax: (413) 545-0628
email: masinha@afroam.umass.edu

Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University (1994)
Field(s) of interest: Nineteenth Century U.S.: Political, African American, Southern

Research Interests and Professional Activities
Manisha Sinha is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was born in India and received her doctorate from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery(2000)and co-editor of the two volume African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century (2004) and Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History (2007). She is currently working on a book on African Americans and the movement to abolish slavery, 1775-1865 under contract with Harvard University Press. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including research grants from the National Endowment in the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University, a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from the University of North Carolina, the President's and Whiting fellowships from Columbia University. Her research interests lie in nineteenth century United States history,especially the history of slavery and abolition, southern and African American history, and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She has published and lectured widely on these topics. In 2003, she was appointed to the OAH's Distinguished Lecture Series and she is the editor of the "Race and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900," series of the University of Georgia Press.