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Education
BA Amherst College, 1988
PhD Princeton University, 1995
Research Interests
John Sweet is an historian of Early America and the former director of UNC’s interdisciplinary Program in Sexuality Studies. He specializes in the social and cultural histories of race, gender, and sexuality during the periods before and after the American Revolution.
Some Notable Publications
- The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America (New York: Henry Holt & Co., forthcoming in July 2022)
- Biography and the Black Atlantic, co-edited with Lisa A. Lindsay (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
- “Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography,” with Randy M. Browne and Lisa A. Lindsay, Slavery & Abolition, 2022 (published online ahead-of-print), DOI 10.1080/0144039X.2021.1938399
- Biography and the Black Atlantic, co-edited with Lisa A. Lindsay (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
- Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, edited with Robert Appelbaum (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
- Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
Digital History
Graduate Students
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
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- HIST 070—Seeing History in Everyday Places
- HIST 236—Sex and American History
- HIST 278—The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- HIST 395—Sex and the Law
- HIST 561—The Colonial Experience in North America
- HIST 566—The History of Sexuality in America