Daniel Sunshine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Humanities & Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
Center for Humanities & Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
he/him
Daniel Sunshine is a historian of race and slavery in the early United States. As a postdoctoral fellow, he contributes to public humanities projects, teaching, and research related to the Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies at Tufts University initiative.
Currently, he is completing a book project entitled A Curse Upon Your Union: Crafting Black Freedom and Wartime Reconstruction in Appalachia. He is also involved with research and advocacy on behalf of an African American community group in Richmond, Virginia tied to the legacies of medical racism in the 19th century. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Virginia.
