Shauna Sweeney

Shauna Sweeney is an assistant professor of Women and Gender Studies and History at the University of Toronto. She is a historian of the African Diaspora, specializing in the interrelated histories of gender, economy, slavery, and emancipation in the Caribbean.

She is currently finishing her first book, A Free Enterprise: Market Women, Insurgent Economies and the Making of Caribbean Freedom, which examines the licit and illicit economies of enslaved and free people of African descent, especially free and enslaved market women, in Jamaica and the wider the Atlantic world. Shauna’s work has appeared in The William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, and Social Text.