Wendy Warren is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Princeton University, where she specializes in colonial North American history, the Atlantic world, slavery, and the history of race. Her research focuses particularly on seventeenth-century New England and the experiences of Africans and African Americans in early colonial society. Drawing on extensive archival research, Warren has reshaped understanding of the origins of slavery and racial hierarchy in early America. Through both her scholarly work and narrative history writing, she has established herself as a leading interpreter of colonial America and the historical foundations of race and slavery in the United States.
