Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Named University Professor

National Book Critics Circle Award

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book entitled Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association

Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

Lionel Trilling Prize


Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Named University Professor

National Book Critics Circle Award

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book entitled Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association

Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

Lionel Trilling Prize


Saidiya Hartman
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Named University Professor

National Book Critics Circle Award

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book entitled Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association

Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

Lionel Trilling Prize