Wendy Warren
American historian
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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.
Wendy Warren | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Education
Warren was born and raised in San Diego, California.[1] She attended Yale University for her Master's degree and PhD.[2]
Career
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]