Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman, who grew up in Brooklyn, holds degrees from Wesleyan and Yale and is on the faculty at Columbia University. She is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval; Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America; and Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route, an excerpt of which won the 2007 Narrative Prize. The recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, she lives in New York.

Photograph © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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