Publications

SenGupta, Gunja, and Awam Amkpa. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire. Univ of California Press, 2023.

SenGupta, Gunja. From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918. NYU Press, 2009.

SenGupta, Gunja. For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860. University of Georgia Press, 1996.

SenGupta, Gunja, "34. Sankofa and the Art of Archiving Black Atlantic Migrations." Women and Migration (s) II (2022): 259.

Gunja SenGupta, "Pan-Mongolism to Anti-Racist Internationalism: Perspectives from U. S. History," in Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context, ed. David Rainbow, (Montreal, McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2019), 312-338.

Gunja SenGupta, “Migration as a Woman’s Right: Stories from Comparative and Transnational Slavery Histories in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds,” in Women and slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval North Atlantic, eds Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph Calder Miller, Vol. 1. (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2019), 561-580.

Amkpa, Awam, and Gunja SenGupta, "Picturing Homes and Border Crossings: The Slavery Trope in Films of the Black Atlantic." Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images, ed Ana-Lucia Araujo (New York: Cambria Press, 2011), 359-387

Gunja SenGupta, "The Blackamoor as Voyager: Re-Significations in Transit from Old Worlds to Estevanico, Abraham Lincoln, Bayou Ballads, and William Attaway," in ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings, ed Amkpa, Awam. (Rome: Postcart, 2016), 75-93.

Gunja SenGupta, "Women's Prison Association," "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," and "Mammy" in Encyclopedia of women in American history, ed Appleby, Joyce, Eileen Chang, and Neva Goodwin. Routledge, 2015.

Gunja SenGupta, "Angelina and Sarah Grimke," and "Alice Paul" in Reader's guide to American history, Parish, Peter J., under contract, Routledge, 2013. 

SenGupta, Gunja, "Africans, the Libyan Sibyl, and the Greek  Slave" in Transition 132. 60th Anniversary issue, “Black in the Mediterranean Blue,” guest-edited by Wole Soyinka. (2021): 188-201.

Amkpa, Awam, and Gunja SenGupta, "History in Ousmane Sembène’s Guelwaar and Ceddo." Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010, no. 27 (2010): 14-21.

Sengupta, Gunja, "Elites, subalterns, and American identities: a case study of African-American benevolence." The American Historical Review 109, no. 4 (2004): 1104-1139.

SenGupta, Gunja, "Black and" Dangerous"?: African American Working Poor Perspectives on Juvenile Reform and Welfare in Victorian New York, 1840-1890." The Journal of Negro History 86, no. 2 (2001): 99-131.

SenGupta, Gunja, "Bleeding Kansas." Kansas History 24, no. Winter (2001): 318-341. Lead article in award-winning Review Essay series honored by American Association of State and Local History.

Gunja SenGupta, "Women's Issues in India," Commerce Journal, April 2, 1997

SenGupta, Gunja, ""A Model New England State": Northeastern Antislavery in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860." Civil War History 39, no. 1 (1993): 31-46.

SenGupta, Gunja, "Servants for Freedom: Christian Abolitionists in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1858." Kansas History 16, no. 3 (1993): 200.