Roquinaldo A - Brown University

Roquinaldo A. Ferreira
399 Lloyd Avenue
Providence, RI
02906
USA
[email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013 to present
Vasco da Gama Associate Professor of History and Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies, Brown University.
2011 to 2013 Associate Professor of African and African American History, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville.
2005 to 2010 University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Assistant Professor of African and
African American History
2005 Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. Visiting Professor of African History.
2000 - 2002 Hull University (England). Research Assistant
1993 - 1997 Candido Mendes University/Afro-Asian Studies Center, Brazil. Research
Assistant
EDUCATION
1997 - 2003 University of California at Los Angeles. Ph.D. in History, with emphasis on
Central Africa.
1993 - 1996 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. M.A. in Social History.
1987 - 1992 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. B.A. in History.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
● Dos Sertões ao Atlântico: Tráfico Ilegal de Escravos e Comércio Lícito em Angola, 18301860 (Luanda: Kilombelombe, 2012), 387 pp.
● Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the
Slave Trade (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 275 pp.
● Pathways to Colonialism: Central Africa and the Atlantic World during the Age of
Abolition (ca. 1830s-ca. 1880s), in preparation
Articles and Book Chapters
● "The Slave Trade to Latin America: A Historiographical Assessment", in Alejandro de la
Fuente and George Reid Andrews (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Afro-Latin American
Studies (Cambridge University Press: NY, in preparation).
● "Portugal, Spain, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade", in Fernando Bouza Álvarez, Pedro
Cardim and Antonio Feros (eds.), The Iberian World (1400-1800) (Routledge: London, in
preparation).
● "Taking Stock: Portuguese Imperial Historiography Twelve Years after the e-JPH
Debate", e-JPH, forthcoming in 2016.
Ferreira CV page 1
● “Measuring Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic, 18071860”, in David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (eds.), Networks and Trans-Cultural
Exchange: Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 221237.
● "The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade", in Joseph Miller (ed.), Princeton
Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. 423-425.
● “Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries)”, Mulemba Revista Angolana de Ciências Sociais, vol. III, n.º 6, Novembro 2013, pp. 55-80 (also
published in Revista Anos 90, Revista Anos 90, vol. 21, n. 40, 2015, pp. 65-90.
● “From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese Rivalry, Gold-Smuggling, and African
Politics in the Bight of Benin (ca. 1700-ca. 1730)”, in Michiel van Groesen (ed.), The
Legacy of Dutch Brazil (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 59-77.
● “Le Genre Biographique comme Histoire Sociale: La Famille Ferreira Gomes dans
l’Atlantique sud du XIXe siècle”, Brésil(s), (also published as “Biografia como História
Social: o Clã Ferreira Gomes e os Mundos da Escravização no Atlântico Sul”, Varia
História, 50, 2014, pp. 679-685.
● “Tribunal de Mucanos: Slavery and Freedom in Angola (17th-19th centuries)”, Africana
Studia, 2013, pp. 135-143.
● “Abolicionismo versus Colonialismo: Rupturas e Continuidades em Angola (séc. XIX)”,
in Roberto Guedes (ed.), África: Brasileiros e Portugueses (Séculos XVI a XIX) (Rio de
Janeiro: Maud, 2013), pp. 95-113.
● “Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence (1822)", in Lisa
Lindsay and John Sweet (eds.), Biography and the Black Atlantic (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 224-248.
● “Agricultural Enterprise and Unfree Labor in Nineteenth-Century Angola”, in Robin Law,
Suzanne Schwartz and Silke Strickrod and Robin Law (eds.), Commercial Agriculture, the
Slave Trade & Slavery in Africa (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2013), pp. 225-243.
● “Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda (Angola)”, in Jorge
Canizares-Esguerra, Matt Childs, James Sidbury (eds.), The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age
of the Slave Trade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 185-207.
● “Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in Angola”, in David Eltis and Stanley Engerman
(eds.), Cambridge History of Slavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.
111-132.
● “A Primeira Partilha da África: Relações de Poder e Comércio na Costa do Ouro (ca.
1637-ca. 1700)”, Revista Varia História, 2010, pp. 479-498.
● “A Institucionalização dos Estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos: Advento, consolidação
e Transformações” (also available in English translation as “The Institutionalization of
African Studies in the United States: Origin, Consolidation and Transformation”), Revista
Brasileira de História, 59, 2010, pp. 73-90.
● “A Arte de Contrabandear: Redes de Comércio Ilegal no Império Português (ca. 1680- ca.
1750)”, in João Fragoso e Maria de Fátima Silva Gouvêa (eds.), Na Trama das Redes:
Política e Negócios no Império Português, séculos XVI-XVIII (Rio de Janeiro: Civilização
Brasileira, 2010), pp. 203-243.
● “The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s”, in
David Eltis and David Richardson, Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 313334.
Ferreira CV page 2
● “Supply and Deployment of Horses in Angolan Warfare (17th-18th centuries)”, in Beatrix
Heintze and Achim von Oppen (eds), Angola on the Move: Transport Routes,
Communications, and History (Frankfurt/Main: Otto Lembeck Publishers, 2008), pp. 41-51.
● "A Miragem da Miscigenação entre Ideologias e Dinâmicas do Brasil Escravista” (with
Flávio Gomes), CEBRAP, 2008, pp. 141-160.
● “Atlantic Microhistories: Slaving, Mobility, and Personal Ties in the Black Atlantic World
(Angola and Brazil)”, in Nancy Naro, Roger Sansi and David Treece (eds.), Cultures of the
Lusophone Black Atlantic (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 99-128.
● “O Brasil e a Arte da Guerra em Angola (sécs. XVII e XVIII)”, Revista Estudos
Históricos, 39, 2007, pp. 1-23.
● “Ilhas Crioulas: O Significado Plural da Mestiçagem Cultural na África Atlântica”,
Revista de História, 155, 2007, pp. 17-43.
● “The Atlantic Networks of the Benguela Slave Trade (1730-1800)”, in CEAP (ed.),
Trabalho Forçado Africano: Experiências Coloniais Comparadas (Lisboa: Campo das
Letras, 2006), pp. 66-99.
● ”Biografia, Mobilidade e Cultura Atlântica: A Micro-Escala do Tráfico de Escravos em
Benguela, séculos XVIII-XIX”, Revista Tempo, 2006, pp. 33-59.
● “Abolicionismo e o Fim do Tráfico de Escravos em Angola, séc. XIX”, Cadernos CHDD,
2005, pp. 159-176.
● “Dinâmica do Comércio Intra-Colonial: Geribitas, Panos Asiáticos e Guerra no Tráfico
Angolano de Escravos (Século XVIII)”, in João Fragoso, Maria de Fátima Silva Gouvêa,
Maria Fernanda Baptista Bicalho (eds), O Antigo Regime nos Trópicos: a Dinâmica
Imperial Portuguesa (séculos XVI-XVIII) (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 2001), pp. 339378.
● “Negociantes, Fazendeiros e Escravos”, Revista Internacional de Estudos Africanos, 1822, 2001, pp. 9-28.
● “Fontes para o Estudo da Escravidão em Angola: Luanda e Icolo e Bengo no Pós-Tráfico
de Escravos”, in Construindo o passado angolano: as fontes e a sua interpretação: Actas do
II Seminário internacional sobre a história de Angola (Lisboa, CNPDP, 2000), pp. 667-680.
● “Brasil e Angola no Tráfico Ilegal de Escravos”, in Selma Pantoja. Brasil e Angola nas
Rotas do Atlântico Sul (Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand, 1999), pp. 143-194.
● “Tráfico Ilegal e Revoltas de Escravos em Angola entre 1830 e 1860”, Revista Afro-Ásia,
1999, pp. 9-44.
● “Fazendas em Troca de Escravos: Circuitos de Créditos nos Sertões de Angola, 18301860”, Revista Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, 32, 1997, pp. 76-96.
● “Padrões de Investimentos no Tráfico Angolano de Escravos”, Revista Textos e Fontes,
1996.
AWARDS and Honors
● Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2013
● Visiting Professor, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement,
Geneva, 2012
● Visiting Fellow, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Geneva,
2012
● National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012-2013
● University of Virginia, Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
2012
● University of Virginia, Summer Stipend Award, 2012
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● University of Virginia, Faculty Research Travel Grant in International Studies, 2012
● University of Virginia, Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
2011
● University of Virginia, Summer Stipend Award, 2011
● University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar Grant, 2010
● University of Virginia, Professors as Writers Grant, 2010
● University of Virginia, Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
2009
● American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2008
● University of Virginia, Harrison Research Award (Faculty Sponsor), Center for
Undergraduate Excellence, 2007
● Harvard University, Residential Fellowship at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research, 2006
● Harvard University, Residential Fellowship at David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, 2006
● Yale University, Residential Fellowship at Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, 2006
● National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (Brazil), Post-Doctoral
Fellowship, 2005
● University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2002
● Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Research Grant, 2001
● Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Research Grant, 2000
● UCLA, ISOP, Fieldwork Research Grant, 2000
● UCLA, ISOP, Summer Travel Grant, 1999
● UCLA, Center for African Studies, Summer Travel Grant, 1999
● UCLA, ISOP, Summer Travel Grant, 1998
● UCLA, Center for Latin American Studies, Summer Travel Grant, 1998
● UCLA, Department of History, Summer Travel Grant, 1998
● Tinker Foundation, Summer Travel Grant, PhD Studies Fellowship, 1998
● University of California (UCLA), (covering tuition and fees plus living stipend), 19972001
● National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (Brazil), PhD Studies
Fellowship, 1998-2002
● Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil, PhD
Studies Fellowship, 1997
● Travel Grant (Angola and Portugal), Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (CEAA),
Universidade Candido Mendes, Brazil, 1995
● National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (Brazil), MA Studies
Fellowship, 1993-1995
● National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (Brazil), Undergraduate
Studies Research Fellowship, 1990-1992
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
● “Benguela City”, in John Middleton and Joseph Miller (eds.), Encyclopedia of Africa
South of the Sahara, Gale, 2007.
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BOOK REVIEWS
● Review of Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight (eds.) Sugarlandia
Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940, Social History, 34,
4, 2009.
● “Review of José Curto, Enslaving spirits: the Portuguese-Brazilian alcohol trade at
Luanda and its Hinterland, c. 1550-1830 (Leiden, Brill, 2004), Itinerario, 3, 2006.
● “Review of João Pedro Marques, The sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and
the Abolition of the Slave Trade (NY, Berghahn Books, 2006), Itinerario, 2, 2005, pp. 176178.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
● 2015 “Building Empire in West Africa: Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and the Foundation of
the Portuguese fort of Uidá (1721)", Brown University, December 15.
● 2015 “After the Independence of Brazil (1822): Rebuilding Portuguese Colonialism in the
South Atlantic World", Johns Hopkins University, December 11.
● 2015 “Enslaved Africans Agency and the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in
Central Africa (Angola and Congo)”, Yale University, November 30.
● 2015 “African Agency and Slave Trade Suppression in Ambriz (Central Africa)”, Harvard
University, October 30.
● 2015 “In Africa, a New Brazil: Rebuilding Portuguese Colonialism in the South Atlantic
World”, Kennesaw University, October 15.
● 2015 “Disputas Imperiais, Agência Africana e a Abolição do Tráfico Atlântico de
Escravos em Angola”, Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, Portugal, September 25.
● 2015 “A Fundação do Forte de Ajudá e a Reconfiguração do Comércio Português na
Costa da Mina”, UFBA, August, 28.
● 2015 “Internal Diasporas: Slave Resistance and Family Connections during the Era of
Abolitionism in Angola”, July 10.
● 2015 “The Slave Trade to Latin America: A Historiographical Assessment”, Harvard
University, May 7.
● 2015 “The Foundation of the Ajudá in the Bight of Benin (1722): Portuguese and African
Relations on the Slave Coast (West Africa)”, Harvard University, April 8.
● 2015 “The Independence of Brazil in the Broader Atlantic World”, Yale University,
February 24.
● 2014 “A Fundação do Forte de Ajudá: Conexões Atlânticas na Baía do Benin (primeira
metade do século XVIII)”, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil, December 3.
● 2014 “L’Angola dans les Réseaux Atlantiques du Trafic Négrier (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)”,
Université d’Aix-Marseille, France, June 27.
● 2013 “Da Quantificação a História Social: A Historiografia do Tráfico de Escravos”.
Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola, December 5.
● 2013 “A Familia Ferreira Gomes e o Fim do Tráfico de Escravos entre Angola e Brasil”.
Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola, December 4.
● 2013 “A Conquista do Ambriz: Rearticulando Politicas Coloniais depois do Tráfico de
Escravos”. Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola. December 3.
● 2013 “O Contraponto Africano: Revolta de Escravos em Angola na Era do Tráfico de
Escravos”. Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola, December 2.
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● 2013 “Estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos: Advento, Consolidação e Transformação”.
Natal, Brazil, July 27.
● 2013 “L'abolition de la Traite Négrière et la Politique Raciale dans l'Atlantique Sud (XIXe
siècle)”. Université de Nantes, France, June 24.
● 2013 “Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries)”. Brown
University, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Symposium, May 10.
● 2013 “Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries). African
History Seminar, History Department, University of Basel, Switzerland, March 26.
● 2012 “Portugal’s African Vassals: Slaving and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Black
Atlantic World”. Brown University, History Department, March 7.
● 2011 “Pierre Verger and the Historiography of the Black Atlantic”. African Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Washington D. C, November 16-17.
● 2011 “Tribunal de Mucanos: Escravidão e Liberdade em Angola”. Instituto de
Investigação Científica, Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal, June 22.
● 2011 “Slaving and Cultural Exchange: A Microhistory of the Afro-Atlantic World
(Angola and Brazil)”. New York University, April 14.
● 2011 “A Comparative Approach to the Rise of African Studies in Brazil and the United
States (1960s to the Present)”. The University of Virginia, April 8.
● 2011 “Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) during the Brazilian Independence (ca.
1820- ca. 1825)”. National Humanities Center, North Carolina, February 26-27.
● 2011 “Subjects of the Atlantic World: Slaving & Cultural Exchange in Angola (c. 1700
-c.1850)”. Northwestern University, History Department, February 21.
● 2011 "Religious and Cultural Landscapes of Angola during the Era of the Slave Trade".
Vanderbilt University, History Department, February 14.
● 2010 “Manufacturing a Mixed Society: Degredo, Miscegenation, and the Cultural and
Religious Landscapes of Eighteenth-Century Coastal Angola”. Annual Meeting of African
Studies Association, San Francisco, United States, November 19-21.
● 2010 “Microhistory and the Historiography of the Angolan Slave Trade”. Yale
University, Gilder Lehrman Center’s 12 Annual International Conference, October 29-30.
● 2010 “Atlantic Microhistory: Slaving, Transatlantic Networks, and Cross-Cultural
Exchange in Angola”. Duke University, Department of African and African-American
Studies, October 12.
● 2010 “A Confederação Brazílica: Tensão Social e Conflito Racial em Benguela nos Primórdios da
da Independência do Brasil”. IV Encontro Nacional sobre História de Angola, Luanda, Angola,
September 28-October 1.
● 2010 “Abolition and its Aftermath: Agricultural Alternatives to the End of the
Angolan Slave Trade”. German Historical Institute, London, England, September 23-25.
● 2010 “A Primeira “Partilha” da África: Decadência e Ressurgência do Comércio
Português na Costa do Ouro (ca. 1650-ca. 1700)”. I Simpósio Internacional de Estudos sobre
a Escravidão Africana no Brasil. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil,
June 18-20.
● 2009 “Tribunal of Mukanos: Slavery and Freedom in Angola (17th-19th Centuries)”. Annual
Meeting of African Studies Association, New Orleans, United States, November 19-22.
● 2009 “L’Abolition du Commerce d’Esclaves dans l’Atlantic Sud”. Conférence
Internationale L’impact de l’Abolition de la Traite par la Grande-Bretagne sur les Discours
Nationaux en France, au Etats-Unis, au Denmark, en Espagne, au Portugal et au Pays-Bas
(Métropole et Colonies). Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, June 11-13.
● 2009 “L’Atlantique Sud: un Space d’Échanges Culturels, Sociaux et Commerciaux dans
les XVIII e XIX siècles”. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris,
France, June 10.
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● 2009 “Escravidão, Cultura e Sociedade em Luanda (Séculos XVII-XIX)”. Instituto de
Investigação Científica e Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal, April 6.
● 2009 “Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda (17th-19th Centuries)”.
University of Texas at Austin, Urban Black Atlantic Conference, April 2-3.
● 2009 “A Arte de Furtar: Circuitos de Comércio Ilegal no Império Português). Instituto de Ciências
Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal, March 30.
● 2008 “Atlantic-Crossings: the Formation of an Atlantic Community between Angola and
Brazil (18th-19th centuries)”. Center for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS),
International Workshop on Back to Africa: Afro-Brazilian returnees and their Communities,
Johannesburg, South Africa, July 14-16.
● 2008 “The Social and Cultural Landscapes of an African City: Luanda (17th-19th
Centuries)”. Université Sorbonne IV, International Workshop on History of Brazil and the
Southern Atlantic, Paris, France, April 10-11.
● 2008 “Disrupting Colonial Histories: Africans and the Making of Spanish American
Historiographies” (Panel Commentator). Conference on Latin American History Meeting,
Washington, DC.
● 2008 “Microhistory, Mobility, and Family Ties: The Atlantic Odyssey of Manoel de
Salvador (Eighteenth Century)”. American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
Washington DC.
● 2008 “Atlantic Biographies, Part 2: Odysseys through Time” (Panel Chair). American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
● 2007 “Africanidade, Crioulidade e o Atlântico: Trocas Culturais em Angola (sécs. XVII,
XVIII e XIX)”. III Encontro Nacional de História de Angola, Luanda, Angola.
● 2007 “Angola and Brazil in the African Diaspora”. Slavery & Abolition Lecture Series,
University of South Florida.
● 2007 “External and Local Factors in the Process of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in
Angola, 1830-1860”. International Conference, “The Bloody Writing is for Ever Torn”:
Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the
Atlantic Slave Trade, Ghana, 2007.
● 2007 “Bonds of Slaving: Angola and Brazil in the Atlantic World (1680-1730)”. Brown
University, Center for Latin American Studies.
● 2007 “Angola and Brazil in the African Diaspora”. University of California at Berkeley,
Department of African-American Studies.
● 2007 “Microhistory from Below: The Social and Cultural Landscapes of Slaving and
Resistance to Slaving in Angola, 17th-19th Centuries”. Stanford University, Center for Latin
American Studies.
● 2007 Atlantic Microhistories: Slaving, Mobility, and Personal Ties in the Atlantic World
(Angola and Brazil)". Emory University, Seminar in African History, Culture, and Society.
● 2007 “City of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Luanda”. American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Atlanta.
● 2006 “Ilhas Crioulas: Mestiçagem Cultural na África Atlântica”. IX Congresso Luso-AfroBrasileiro de Ciências Sociais, Luanda, Angola.
● 2006 “Dinâmicas Sociais em Angola no Contexto da Escravidão e do Tráfico de Escravos
(sécs. XVII-XVIII)”. Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de História.
● 2006 “Estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos”. II Conference of Intellectuals from Africa
and the Diaspora (CIAD II), Salvador, Brazil.
● 2006 “Reconnecting the African Diaspora: Trade, Agency, and Atlantic Culture in Angola
and Brazil (secs. XVIII-XIX)”. Michigan State University/University of Michigan, Atlantic
History Workshop.
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● 2006 “Theory and Practice in the Black Atlantic: The Dynamic of the African Diaspora
from Angola to Brazil”. Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies.
● 2006 “Refocusing the African Diaspora: A Southern Atlantic Perspective”. University of
Wisconsin, Madison. International Symposium African Diaspora and the Disciplines.
● 2006 “Slaving, Trade, and Creolization in the Black Atlantic: Angola and Brazil, 16501800”. Harvard University, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American
Research.
● 2006 “Angola in the Africa Diaspora: Microhistory, Personal Trajectories, and Mobility in
the Southern Atlantic World”. Boston University, African American Studies Program.
● 2006 “Individualizing the African Diaspora: A Microhistorical Investigation of Atlantic
Cultures”. University of Virginia, Conference “Beyond Race and Ethnicity in the
Americas”.
● 2006 “Shifting the Grounds: Slaving, Agency, and Culture in the African Diaspora
(Angola)”. Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and
Abolition.
● 2005 “Dilemas da Institucionalização da História da África: o Caso Americano”.
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais.
● 2005 “Biografia, Comércio e Cultura em Angola: A Microdinâmica do Comércio no
Atlântico Sul”. Colóquio Internacional “Trabalho Forçado Africano – Experiências Coloniais
Comparadas”. Universidade do Porto, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal.
● 2005 “Tráfico de Escravos e Controle Territorial em Angola”. Universidade Federal de
Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
● 2005 “Trajetórias Individuais e História Atlântica: Angola e Brasil, sécs. XVII-XVIII”.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Seminário Mares de História.
● 2005 “O Tráfico Negreiro Luso-Brasileiro na África Ocidental e Oriental”. Mesa Redonda
no VI Congresso de História Econômica.
● 2005 “O Reino de Kassanje e a Articulação do Poder Colonial Português em Angola”.
Seminário Integrado O Governo dos Povos: Poder e Administração no Império Português,
Paraty, Brazil.
● 2005 “Creolization and Cultural Hybridism in the Atlantic World: Merchants and Trading
Networks in Angola and Brazil, 1650-1850”. Harvard University, United States, Atlantic
History Seminar.
● 2005 “Transformações na Escravidão Atlântica: Tráfico, Guerra e Controle Territorial em
Angola (1650-1800)”. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.
● 2004 “Patterns and Directions of the Trade in Slaves and Legitimate Goods in the Era of
Abolitionism (Angola, 1830-1860)”. Emory University, Atlanta, United States.
● 2004 “Telling their own Plight: A Micro-Historical Analysis of Enslavement and
Resistance to Slavery in Angola”. Annual Meeting of African Studies Association, New
Orleans, United States.
● 2004 “Notas Preliminares sobre o Movimento do Porto de Luanda na Transição do Tráfico
de Escravos para o Comércio Legítimo em Angola (1845-1860)”. Workshop on New Trends
in Economic History in Brazil, Araraquara, Brazil.
● 2004 “Deconstructing African Narrative: Enslavement, Resistance, and Community in
Angola”. Cambridge University (Harvard Atlantic History Seminar), Cambridge, England.
● 2003 “The Horse and Angolan Warfare, 1617-1805”. Angola on the Move: Transport
Routes, Communications, and History Conference. Centre for Modern Oriental Studies,
Berlin, Germany.
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● 1999 “War and the Politics of Slaving to the West of the Kwango River, Angola”. Howard
University, Bantu into Blacks: Central Africans in the African Diaspora Conference,
Washington, D.C.
● 1998 “The Aftermath of the Angolan Slave Trade: A Quantitative Assessment of Icolo e
Bengo Region between 1850 and 1860”. History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference. Williamsburg, Virginia.
● 1998 “Illegal Slave Trade and Slave Revolts in Angola between 1830 and 1860”. Annual
Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington.
● 1997 “Fontes Quantitativas para o Estudo da Escravidão em Angola”. “Segunda
Conferência International sobre História de Angola”, Luanda, Angola.
● 1996 “Organização e Estrutura do Tráfico de Escravos em Angola, Século XIX”. Segunda
Reunião Internacional de História da África, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
PEER REVIEW
Referee for Canadian Journal of African Studies, University of Rochester Press, Palgrave
Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Oxford Universities, and Revista de História
(USP), Brill Academic Press, Revista Afro-Ásia, Revista Tempo, and Revista Varia
História.
SERVICE
2014-present Associated Director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ),
Brown University
2014-present Editorial Board (Journal of Global Slavery)
2014-present Editorial Board (Brill Studies in Global Slavery)
2015 Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Coleção Atlântica”, a joint editorial
project by the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil), and CHAM-FCSH-UNL
2015 Member of the Program Committee for the Forum on European Expansion and
Global Interaction (FEEGI) biennial conference
2015 Member of the Advisory Board (John Carter Brown Library)
2015 Member of PPC
2014-2015
Member of Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, Brown
University
2014 Member of Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, Brown University
2013 Member of Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, Brown University
2013 Member of US History Search Committee, Brown University
2012 Member of Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Carter G.
Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
2011 Member of Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, University of Virginia
2010 Member of Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, University of Virginia
2010 Member of Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Carter G.
Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
2007 Member of Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Carter G.
Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
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2007 Member of US History Search Committee, University of Virginia
2007 Director of Study Abroad Program (Salvador, Brazil), University of Virginia
2006 Director of Study Abroad Program (Salvador, Brazil), University of Virginia
CLASSES TAUGHT
HIST 0971 The Rise of Abolitionism and Colonialism in the Atlantic World (Africa,
Europe, and the Americas)
HIAF 4531 Africa and the Atlantic World
HIST 589 Atlantic History
HILA 307 Colonial Brazilian History
AAS 1010 Introduction to African American Studies
HIAF 2031 The African Diaspora
HIST 307/AAS 307 Afro-Brazilian History
AAS 405Z Bahian Culture and History
HILA 402 Brazil to the End of the Nineteenth-Century
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