• Jenny Shaw
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., New York University, 2009
  
  jenny.shaw@ua.edu
  
  Fall 2011 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, Noon - 1:00 p.m.; by appointment.

  Research Interests:

• History of the Atlantic World
• History of the Early Modern English Caribbean
• Race and Gender in the Americas
• History of Slavery
• Approaches to the Archive


Current and Forthcoming Courses:

• History of American Civilization to 1865 (HY203)
• Nineteenth Century Black History (AAST/HY319)
• Comparative Slavery and Emancipation (HY411)
• Atlantic History
• Caribbean History (HY475)
• Undergraduate Research Seminar: Slavery in America (HY430)
• Graduate Proseminar: United States History to 1865: Atlantic Perspectives (HY606)
  
  Recent Publications:

• "Subjects without an Empire: The Irish in the Early Modern Caribbean," Past and Present, no. 210 (Feb 2011): 33-60, with Kristen Block.

Current Projects:

• Island Purgatory: The Construction of Difference in the Early Modern English Caribbean (book project)
• "Beyond the Whore and the Wench: New Narratives from the Archive" (article)