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Shauna Sweeney joins the Department of History as a historian specializing in Slavery, Freedom, Gender, and the African Diaspora. She served as the 2016–2018 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Her current research includes a book manuscript titled "Free Enterprise: Market Women, Insurgent Economies Making Caribbean Freedom," which examines the era of violent subjugation within the plantation economy of enslaved peoples, focusing on their experiences within Atlantic capitalism and their defense of customary rights to cultivate and sell goods from their own provision grounds. Dr. Sweeney's work has been supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the Mainzer Fellowship at New York University.
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