Wendy Anne Warren is an American historian. Her book ''New England Bound'' won a

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and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is also an

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of History at

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Education

Warren was born and raised in

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, California. She attended

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for her

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and PhD.

Career

Warren joined the faculty at

after completing a junior research fellowship at the

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. From 2014 until 2017, she held the university's Philip and Beulah Rollins Preceptorship in the Department of History. In her final year of the preceptorship, she published ''New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America'' through Boni & Liveright. The idea for the book came to her as a doctoral student at Yale, when she came across a 17th century account of the rape of a New England slave. It won the 2017

as the best book published in American social history and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. Following the publication of her book, Warren was promoted to

and received the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the

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References

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