Sasha Turner, 'Grief, Grievance, and Mortal Loss in Atlantic Slavery'.

Professor Turner is a leading and prize-winning historian of the Caribbean and African Diaspora social and cultural histories, women and children, the body and emotions, reproduction, nursing, midwifery, and community health care. Her first book, 'Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) was a ground-breaking study of emotional impact of infant death and child mortality on enslaved women. Her current project, tentatively titled 'Slavery, Emotions, and Gender', explores the role of emotion in structuring the power struggles that defined enslavement, including how enslaver and enslaved deployed emotion for social, cultural, and political goals.