Who Is Manisha Sinha? India-American Guggenheim Fellow 2022

Manisha Sinha is one of the six Indian-American scholars who were honored by The Guggenheim Foundation and named it's fellows in 2022. The historian's research on slavery, abolition, the Civil War and reconstruction are her major contributions to the field.

Manisha Sinha is an Indian-American historian who was announced as the Guggenheim Fellow along with five other Indian-American including Jyoti Puri, Suparna Rajaram, Manjul Bhargava, Shrikanth Narayana and Prashant K Jain. Manisha is currently serving at the University Of Connecticut as the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History. Her major research work includes the analysation of the 19th century and its events including slavery and its abolition, the history of feminism, Political History, US History, African American History, the Civil War and Reconstruction and Southern History.

Who Is Manisha Sinha?

Born in India, Manisha pursued her PhD from Columbia University and was nominated for Bancroft Prize. Her authored book The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition was maned Editor's Choice by New York Times and was even long listed for National Book Award for Non Fiction. Another book by her titled Counterrevolution of Slavery:  Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina featured in the ten best books on slavery in 2015 in Politico. She has written for many big names including The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and many others. She is married to a philosophy professor, Karsten R. Stueber, at the College of the Holy Cross. She lives in Massachusetts with her two sons, a dog and husband.

Manisha's publications on history are a number of important books that she has authored,  co-edited and co-authored like The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, The Abolitionist Imagination, Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History, The Counterrevolution of Slavery:  Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina and African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century.

Manisha's awards and fellowships include James W.C. Pennington Award by the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2021, she was elected to the Board of Trustees at the Connecticut Historical Society in 2021, she is an Elected Member of the Society of American Historians since 2018, Elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 2017, remained Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester during 2020-2021 and many other prestigious honors.

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