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Wendy Anne Warren is an American historian. Her book New England Bound won a Merle Curti Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is also an Associate professor of History at Princeton University.

Education

Warren was born and raised in San Diego, California.^[1] She attended Yale University for her Master's degree and PhD.^[2]

Career

Warren joined the faculty at Princeton University after completing a junior research fellowship at the University of Oxford.^[2] From 2014 until 2017, she held the university's Philip and Beulah Rollins Preceptorship in the Department of History.^[3] In her final year of the preceptorship, she published New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America through Boni & Liveright.^[4] The idea for the book came to her as a doctoral student at Yale, when she came across a 17th century account of the rape of a New England slave.^[5] It won the 2017 Merle Curti Award as the best book published in American social history and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.^[6]

Following the publication of her book, Warren was promoted to Associate professor^[7] and received the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.^[8]

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