Manisha Sinha is 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: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and The Slave's Cause: Abolition and the Origins of America's Interracial Democracy (Forthcoming, Yale University Press). She is also co-editor of the two volume African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century (Prentice Hall, 2004) and Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History (Columbia University Press, 2007). In 2011, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed on faculty at the University of Massachusetts and delivered the Distinguished Faculty Lecture. In 2006, she was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society and in 2003, she was appointed to the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lecture Series. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including 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, the Howard Foundation at Brown University, a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from the University of North Carolina, and 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, the sectional conflict and the coming of the Civil War, political and African American history, and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She has published numerous articles and lectured widely on these topics. She is the editor of the "Race and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900," series of the University of Georgia Press. She has blogged for the Disunion section of the The New York Times Opinionator, The Huffington Post, and the History News Network.
2010
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation., Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2010)
2009
2008
An American aristocracy: Southern planters in antebellum Philadelphia, American Historical Review (2008)
2006
John Brown: Abolitionist: The man who killed slavery, sparked the civil war, and seeded civil rights., Civil War History (2006)
Slavery and the peculiar solution: A history of the American colonization society, International History Review (2006)
2005
A shattered nation: The rise and fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868., American Historical Review (2005)
2004
A sphinx on the American land: The nineteenth-century South in comparative perspective., Arkansas Historical Quarterly (2004)
Eugene D Genovese: The Mind of a Marxist Conservative, Radical History Review (2004)
Few historians have left their mark on a field as decisively as Eugene D. Genovese....
2003
The caning of Charles Sumner: Slavery, race, and ideology in the age of the Civil War, Journal of the Early Republic (2003)
2002
Political culture and secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, honor, and the antiparty tradition, 1830-1860., American Historical Review (2002)
2000
Antislavery violence: Sectional, racial, and cultural conflict in antebellum America, Mississippi Quarterly (2000)
Revolution or Counterrevolution?: The Political Ideology of Secession in Antebellum South Carolina, Civil War History (2000)
1995