Gunja Sengupta

Professor of History

Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Gunja SenGupta, Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is the author of the books For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas (1996); From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918 (2009); and most recently, Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire (2023) (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389137/sojourners-sultans-and-slaves ), which extends the gaze of U.S. slavery histories beyond the Atlantic World to East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Her fellowships and grants include those awarded by Mrs. Giles Whiting, Wolfe, Tow, Mellon, and most recently BRESI-CUNY. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including the American Historical Review, Journal of Negro (now African American) History, Civil War History, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Transition Magazine.