Manisha Sinha

Manisha Sinha
ParentSrinivas Kumar Sinha
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineReconstruction
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Connecticut

Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (2024).