Bio
Sasha C. Wells is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in Atlantic History at Florida International University, and an Assistant Professor of History at University of The Bahamas. Wells’ dissertation is tentatively titled, “‘The Looks of a Complete Villain’: Black Networks in the Colonial Bahamas, 1760s-1834” and focuses on Black networks in the 18th and 19th century Bahamas. By examining movement, the project demonstrates how Bahamian networks form part of a larger story of mobility and interconnection in the Atlantic world. For her work, Wells has received a Houghton Visting Fellowship, a SHEAR DEI Fellowship, and Library Travel Grants from University of Florida’s Latin American Center. Wells has published public-facing pieces in Time Magazine’s Made by History, Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies, and FIU’s The Millennium. Additionally, she has co-authored a book review in the American Historical Review. Outside of academia, Wells does history and literature content creation on TikTok and Instagram under @bahareads.
