PhD Program & Course Instructor (Fall 2024)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Atlantic World
- Canada
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Migration/Diaspora
- United States
Biography
Sarah Chute is a PhD student studying slavery and freedom in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North America. Her research interests are in the history of enslavement in the Maritimes, transnational free and forced migration, trade, and the connections that Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island had with slavery in other parts of the Atlantic world, including the British Caribbean.
Awards
- 2026 Jeanne Armour Graduate Scholarship in Canadian History Department of History, UofT
- 2024 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Publications
- "WISE, JUPITER" (University of Toronto/Université Laval : 2024)
- “‘To ship her to the West Indies, and there dispose of her as a Slave’: Biographical Connections of Enslaved People between the Loyalist Maritimes and West Indies” (UNB Libraries : 2022)
Education
MA, University of Vermont
BA, Western Washington University