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Quick facts for kids Sasha Turner
Turner in 2021
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of the West Indies
Scientific career
Institutions	Rutgers University Washington University in St. Louis Pennsylvania State University Yale University Johns Hopkins University
Thesis	Gender and the management of Jamaican sugar estates, 1750-1842. (2007)

Sasha Deborah Turner is a historian from Jamaica and America. She is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She studies the history of the Caribbean. Her work especially looks at the history of slavery and colonialism. She also helps lead the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Early Life and Education

Sasha Turner grew up in the West Indies. She went to the University of the West Indies for her first degree. There, she studied history.

Later, she moved to the United Kingdom to continue her studies. She first studied public health at the University of Cambridge. Then, she stayed at Cambridge to get her PhD. Her PhD research was about how gender played a role on Jamaican sugar farms in the 1700s. After her PhD, Dr. Turner did more research at several universities. These included Rutgers University and Yale University.

Research and Career

In 2010, Dr. Turner became a professor at Quinnipiac University. Later, she joined Johns Hopkins University as a history professor.

Dr. Turner's main focus is the history of the Caribbean. She is very interested in the lives of women and children. She studies how stereotypes about race and gender affected them. She also looks at how emotions played a part in slavery and colonialism.

While writing her first book, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica, Dr. Turner learned about the sad fact that many babies died in Caribbean colonies. This made her want to learn more. She started to research how enslaved women dealt with the loss of their children. She has written essays about the grief of Black mothers in history.

Dr. Turner also writes for the African American Intellectual History Society. This group shares ideas about Black history.

Awards and Honors

Dr. Turner has won many awards for her important work:

• Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
• Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Spurill Prize
• Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association Murdo J. McLeod Prize
• African American Intellectual History Society Maria Stewart Prize
• Association for Black Women's History/Association of African American Life and History Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize
• Southern Historical Association of Women Historians A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize
• North American Conference on British Studies Judith R. Walkowitz Prize
• Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association Kimberly Hanger Prize