Frances O'Shaughnessy
First Name:
Frances
Last Name:
O'Shaughnessy
Email :
frances.oshaughnessy@utoronto.ca
Title:
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (They/Them)
Biography :
Frances O’Shaughnessy (they/them) is a historian of slavery and empire, specializing in nineteenth-century African American histories of gender, disability, and the environment. Their book manuscript, Black Revolution on the Sea Islands, historicizes Gullah Geechee people's practices of freedom, kinship, and care during the US Civil War and Reconstruction.
Education:
PhD, University of Washington
MA, Queen's University
HBA, University of Toronto
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
African American history; Indigenous history; Black food ecologies; US militarism; gender studies; disability history; agricultural history; property law; social reproduction theory; labour history
Postdoctoral Fellowship Title:
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
