Sasha C. Wells is a Graduate Research Assistant at FIU’s Public Humanities Lab, working alongside Dr. Rebecca Friedman and Dr. Aarti Mehta-Kroll. Wells has published in Time Magazine’s Made by History and FIU’s The Millennium, with a forthcoming piece in Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies. Additionally, she has co-authored a book review in the American Historical Review.
A native of The Bahamas, Sasha C. Wells is a third-year PhD Candidate in Atlantic History at Florida International University. 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. Outside of academia, Wells does history and literature content creation on TikTok and Instagram under @bahareads