Dr Abigail Swingen is Assistant Professor of history at Texas Tech University where she specializes in early modern British and European history. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2007. Her book, Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire, forthcoming from Yale University Press, explores how English politics and ideas of political economy influenced the development of African slavery and other forms of coerced labor in England’s West Indies colonies during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She has received many fellowships and awards, including the University of Chicago Social Sciences Divisional Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, the NACBS/Huntington Library Fellowship, the Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship in 18th-century British Studies at the Beinecke Library at Yale, and was a Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellow in residence at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA for 2011-2012.
Twitter: @AbbySwingen.
