Wendy Warren

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Wendy Warren
Born
San Diego, California, USA
Academic background
EducationM.A., M.Phil, Ph.D, history, 2008, Yale University
Thesis Enslaved Africans in New England, 1638-1700 (2008)
Academic work
Institutions Princeton University
Notable worksNew England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

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.

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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]

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  7. "Trustees approve 20 faculty promotions". princeton.edu. May 17, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
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