Picturing Homes and Border Crossings: The Slavery Trope in Films of the Black Atlantic

Gunja SenGupta teaches African American history, the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, and Comparative Slavery, and directs the William E. Macaulay CUNY Honors College at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas (1996), and From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918 (2009). Her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of Negro History, Civil War History, and Kansas History, among others, and her review essays and reviews in the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of the West, Annals of Iowa, the Great Plains Quarterly, and History: Review of New Books, among others. She has given invited lectures at the New York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and the Fulbright Institute seminars on American Civilization at New York University. Her honors and awards include Mrs. Giles Whiting and Wolfe Institute fellowships, and a Claire and Leonard Tow Professorship.