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Shelby Sinclair is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's Department of African American and African Studies. A scholar of 19th- and 20th-century United States and Caribbean history, her research focuses on U.S. empire, military occupation, visual culture, gender, labor, and resistance. She is currently writing a book on women's lives during the 20th-century U.S. military occupation of Haiti (1915-1934).
- Educational background: Ph.D. in History, African American Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies from Princeton University
- M.A. in History from Princeton University
- B.A. in Comparative Ethnic Studies and History (with honors) from Stanford University
Sinclair has received significant institutional support, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. She has published in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International and The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. At UVA, she teaches courses on race, gender, and U.S. empire in the Caribbean, as well as advanced seminars on Black women's history and critical archival methods.
- Former Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College
- Award-winning mentor and educator
