Gunja SenGupta

Professor and Chair, History Department, Brooklyn College-CUNY; Professor of History at BC and GC

Research and Teaching Interests: 19th and early 20th centuries US. Books: From Slavery to Poverty: Racial Origins of Welfare in New York (2009, repr., 2010); For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas (1996); Articles in American Historical Review, Journal of Negro (African American) History, Civil War History, Kansas History, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, among others. Current project: U.S. and the Politics of Slavery, Abolition and Empire in the Western Indian Ocean.

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Academic Interests

Transoceanic debates over slavery and poverty in the Ages of Empire and Emancipation.