Faculty Fellow
Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Science
Project: “As His Slave and Housewife”: Claiming Space in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Maritime Empire
Susanah Romney is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at NYU. She teaches courses on Atlantic history, early America, and Women and Gender. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University and her BA at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America, which was the winner of the Jamestown Prize, the Hendricks Award, and the First Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is currently at work on a study of gender, unfreedom, and claims to space in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire, focusing on Manhattan, Guayana, Java, and southern Africa. Her work helps uncover the roots of the racial and gender hierarchies that developed alongside the first global trade networks.