Gunja SenGupta

Associate Professor

Gunja SenGupta specializes in the US Civil War and Reconstruction, African American history, Women's history, and Comparative Slavery. She is a Leonard and Claire Tow Professor (2004-06), received a Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship for Distinguished Teaching awarded by Brooklyn College in 2001-2002, and was selected a Broeklundian favorite teacher by graduating seniors in 2004-2005. She received her Ph.D. from Tulane University.

Selected publications:

"Elites, Subalterns and American Identities: A Case Study of African American Benevolence," American Historical Review 109 (October 2004)
"Black and 'Dangerous'?: African American Working Poor Perspectives on Juvenile Reform and Welfare in Victorian New York," Journal of Negro History LXXXVI (Spring 2001)
For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860 (University of Georgia Press, 1996) (URL)