I'm an historian of women, colonisation, and slavery in the early modern British Atlantic world. ​I completed my PhD at University College London and have held visiting fellowships at Yale University, the Huntington Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and British Library. I worked for Historic Royal Palaces and the University of Bristol before joining the University of Sussex. 

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I'm writing an intimate history of women's lives in the early British empire, an idea which came to me whilst researching my six-times great-grandmother, Myrtilla, who was enslaved on a coffee plantation in Jamaica. The book was shortlisted, on proposal, for an Eccles Institute and Hay Festival Global Writer's Award, and will be published by Picador.

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Get in touch with me at mishaewen[@]outlook.com,

my agent Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock,

or find me on social media @mishaewen12

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