Guest Gallery Talk: “Curents 40: Widline Cadet”

Shelby M. Sinclair is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute. She specializes in the history of U.S. empire, military occupation, gender, and resistance in the Caribbean and its diasporas. 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 earned her PhD in History, African American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University and BA with honors from Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Virginia, she was the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African American Studies at Dartmouth College.