Education

Ph.D, Princeton University, Department of History

M.A., Princeton University, Department of History

B.A., Stanford University, Program in Comparative Ethnic Studies

Biography

Shelby M. Sinclair is a historian of the nineteenth and twentieth century United States and Caribbean. She specializes in histories of U.S. empire, military occupation, gender, and resistance in the Caribbean and its diasporas. She teaches classes on critical archival methods, Black women's history, U.S. empire in the Caribbean, and Haiti in the world. Her current book project explores Haitian women’s lives and labors during the 19-year U.S. military occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). Dr. Sinclair is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the Provost’s Fellows Program at Dartmouth College.