SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (They/Them)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Atlantic World
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Food
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- Medicine
- Migration/Diaspora
- State, Politics, and Law
- United States
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
Name of Postdoctoral Fellowship
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
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