Manisha Sinha

Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship in 2022. She is the 2025 President-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, which was named one of the ten best books on slavery in Politico and featured in The New York Times 1619 Project. Her recent book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, won the Frederick Douglass, Avery Craven, James Rawley, and SHEAR Best Book prizes, and was also long listed for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Professor Sinha has been on National Public Radio, NBC, Democracy Now, BBC News, C-SPAN, Pacifica, Euro News, Canadian Television News, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, New Zealand Television, China Global News, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are, and the History Channel. She was an on-screen expert for the Emmy nominated PBS documentary, The Abolitionists (2013), which is a part of the NEH funded Created Equal series, and Making Black America (2022).