John Sweet is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as director of UNC's interdisciplinary Program in Sexuality Studies, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC, the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, the McNeil Center at Penn, and the Center for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History at Johns Hopkins. His first book, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830, was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize. He was named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network and has served as an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. He lives in Chapel Hill with his husband, son, and daughter.
