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