Roquinaldo A - Brown University

Roquinaldo A. Ferreira
330 Monticello Road
Charlottesville, VA
22902
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.
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
● 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
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● 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
PUBLICATIONS
Books
● 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.
● Dos Sertões ao Atlântico: Tráfico Ilegal de Escravos e Comércio Lícito em Angola, 18301860 (Luanda: Kilombelombe, 2012), 387 pp.
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Articles and Book Chapters
● “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, forthcoming in 2014).
● “Measuring Short- and Long-Term Impact of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic, 18071860”, in David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (eds.), Circuits of Exchange: Slaves,
Capital and Networks in Atlantic Commerce, 16th-19th Centuries, forthcoming in 2014.
● “Tribunal de Mucanos: Escravidão e Liberdade em Angola (sécs. XVII-XIX)”, Africana
Studia, Portugal, forthcoming in 2014.
● “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), 225-243.
● “Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda (Angola)”, in Jorge
Canizares-Esguerra, Matt Childs, James Sidbury (eds.), The Black Urban in the Age of the
Slave Trade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), 185-207.
● “Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence", in Lisa Lindsay
and John Sweet (eds.), Biography and the Black Atlantic (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
● “Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in Angola”, in David Eltis and Stanley Engerman
(eds), Cambridge History of Slavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 111132.
● “A Primeira Partilha da África: Relações de Poder e Comércio na Costa do Ouro (ca.
1637-ca. 1700)”, Revista Varia Historia, 2010, 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, 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.
● “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)”. Rio de Janeiro, Revista
Estudos Históricos, 39, 2007, pp. 1-23.
● “Ilhas Crioulas: O Significado Plural da Mestiçagem Cultural na África Atlântica”. São
Paulo, Revista de História, 155, 2007, pp. 17-43.
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● “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”. Rio de Janeiro, Revista Tempo, 2006, pp. 33-59.
● “Abolicionismo e o Fim do Tráfico de Escravos em Angola, séc. XIX”. Rio de Janeiro,
Cadernos CHDD, 2005, pp. 159-176.
● “Dinâmica do Comércio Intra-Colonial: Geribitas, Panos Asiáticos e Guerra na 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, n.
18-22, 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”. Bahia, Brazil,
Revista Afro-Ásia, 1999, pp. 9-44.
● “Fazendas em Troca de Escravos: Circuitos de Créditos nos Sertões de Angola, 18301860”. Rio de Janeiro, Revista Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, 32, 1997, pp. 76-96.
● “Padrões de Investimentos no Tráfico Angolano de Escravos”. Luanda, Revista Textos e
Fontes, 1996.
Books, Articles and Book Chapters in Preparation
Books
● Pathways to Colonialism: Abolitionism, Territorial Sovereignty, and the Persistence of
Unfree Labor in Angola (ca. 1830s-ca. 1860s). Book project in progress, funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Articles/Book Chapters
● “An African Counterpoint: Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola during the
Era of the Slave Trade (17th-19th centuries)”, 2015.
● “Biography as Social History: The Ferreira Gomes’ Family and the Worlds of Slaving in
the Nineteenth Century South Atlantic World”. 2015.
● “De-centering the Portuguese Empire: The Indian Textile Trade (Carreira da India) in
India, Angola, and Brazil (16th-18th Centuries)”, 2016.
● “The Confederação Brazílica: the Ramifications of the Brazilian Independence on the
South Atlantic Angola”, 2017.
● “Legal Pluralism in Africa”, 2017.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
● “Benguela City”, in John Middleton and Joseph Miller (eds.), Encyclopedia of Africa
South of the Sahara, Gale, 2007.
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
● 2013 L'abolition de la Traite Négrière et la Politique Raciale dans l'Atlantique Sud (XIXe
siècle), Université de Nantes.
● 2013 Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries), Brown
University, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Symposium.
● 2013 Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries), University
of Basel, History Department, African History Seminar.
● 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)”, History Department, Northwestern University, February 21.
● 2011 "Religious and Cultural Landscapes of Angola during the Era of the Slave Trade".
History Department, Vanderbilt University, 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”. Gilder Lehrman
Center’s 12 Annual International Conference, Yale University, October 29-30.
● 2010 “Atlantic Microhistory: Slaving, Transatlantic Networks, and Cross-Cultural
Exchange in Angola”. Department of African and African-American Studies, Duke
University, 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,
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September 28-October 1.
● 2010 “Abolition and its Aftermath: Agricultural Alternatives to the End of the
Angolan Slave Trade”. “Commercial Agriculture in Africa as an Alternative to the Slave
Trade, International Conference, 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, June
10.
● 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)”.
Urban Black Atlantic Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 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)”. International Workshop on Back to Africa: Afro-Brazilian
returnees and their Communities, Center for Advanced Studies of African Society,
Johannesburg, South Africa, July 14-16.
● 2008 “The Social and Cultural Landscapes of an African City: Luanda (17th-19th
Centuries)”. International Workshop on History of Brazil and the Southern Atlantic,
Université Sorbonne IV, Paris, 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)”. Center
for Latin American Studies, Brown University.
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● 2007 “Angola and Brazil in the African Diaspora”. Department of African-American
Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
● 2007 “Microhistory from Below: The Social and Cultural Landscapes of Slaving and
Resistance to Slaving in Angola, 17th-19th Centuries”. Center for Latin American Studies,
Stanford University.
● 2007 Atlantic Microhistories: Slaving, Mobility, and Personal Ties in the Atlantic World
(Angola and Brazil)". Seminar in African History, Culture, and Society, Emory University.
● 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)”. Departamento de História, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana.
● 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)”. Atlantic History Workshop, Michigan State
University/University of Michigan.
● 2006 “Theory and Practice in the Black Atlantic: The Dynamic of the African Diaspora
from Angola to Brazil”. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard
University.
● 2006 “Refocusing the African Diaspora: A Southern Atlantic Perspective”. International
Symposium African Diaspora and the Disciplines, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
● 2006 “Slaving, Trade, and Creolization in the Black Atlantic: Angola and Brazil, 16501800”. W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard
University.
● 2006 “Angola in the Africa Diaspora: Microhistory, Personal Trajectories, and Mobility in
the Southern Atlantic World”. African American Studies Program, Boston University.
● 2006 “Individualizing the African Diaspora: A Microhistorical Investigation of Atlantic
Cultures”. Conference “Beyond Race and Ethnicity in the Americas”, University of
Virginia.
● 2006 “Shifting the Grounds: Slaving, Agency, and Culture in the African Diaspora
(Angola)”. Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale
University.
● 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”, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto, 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”.
Seminário Mares de História, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
● 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.
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● 2005 “Creolization and Cultural Hybridism in the Atlantic World: Merchants and Trading
Networks in Angola and Brazil, 1650-1850”. Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University,
United States.
● 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)”. Workshop on the History of the Transatlantic Slave
Trade, 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”. Harvard Atlantic History Seminar, Cambridge University, 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.
● 1999 “War and the Politics of Slaving to the West of the Kwango River, Angola”. Bantu
into Blacks: Central Africans in the African Diaspora Conference. Howard University,
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, and
Palgrave Macmillan.
SERVICE
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
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
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CLASSES TAUGHT
HIAF 4531 Africa and the Atlantic
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
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Angola
12/2006
Research at the Arquivo Histórico Nacional de Angola (Angolan National
Archives).
01/03 - 08/03 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo do Bispado (Luanda Catholic Church Archives)
and Biblioteca Municipal de Luanda (Luanda Municipal Library).
09/00 - 04/02 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Histórico Nacional de Angola (Angolan
National Archives), Biblioteca Municipal de Luanda (Luanda Municipal Library) and the
Arquivo da Comarca Judicial de Benguela (Benguela Courthouse Archives).
08/97 - 09/97 Research at the the Arquivo Histórico Nacional de Angola (Angolan National
Archives).
08/98 - 09/98 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Histórico Nacional de Angola (Angolan
National Archives) and the Biblioteca Municipal de Luanda (Luanda Municipal Library).
02/95 - 03/95 M.A. research at the Arquivo Histórico Nacional de Angola (Angolan
National Archives).
Brazil
07/01 - 08/01 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro
National Archives), Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro National Library)
and Instituto Histórico Geográfico Brasileiro (Brazilian Geographical – Historical Institute).
1993 - 1994 M.A. research at the Arquivo Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro
National Archives) and Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro National
Library).
Portugal
11/2006
Research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives) and the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Torre do Tombo Portuguese
National Archives).
11/2005
Research at Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa e Biblioteca da Sociedade de
Geografia de Lisboa
04/04 - 05/04 Research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives) and Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon Geography Society).
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05/02 - 11/02 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives) and the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Torre do Tombo Portuguese
National Archives).
02/00 - 08/00 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives), Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa (Lisbon National Library), the Arquivo Nacional
da Torre do Tombo (Torre do Tombo Portuguese National Archives), Sociedade de
Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon Geography Society) and the Arquivo Geral da Marinha (Naval
Archives).
07/99 - 08/99 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives) and Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa (Lisbon National Library).
07/98 - 08/98 Ph.D. research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives) and Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon Geography Society).
04/95 - 05/95 M.A. research at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Overseas Historical
Archives).
England
04/04 - 05/04 British National Archives (former Public Record Office-PRO) and the British
Library.
United States
2/05 – 3/05
Culture.
New York Public Library and Schomburg Center for Research in Black
LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese (native language), Spanish (excellent reading skills)
REFERENCES
Prof Edward Alpers, History Department, UCLA, [email protected]
Prof. Joseph Miller, History Department, University of Virginia, [email protected]
Prof. David Eltis, History Department, Emory University, [email protected]
Prof. Linda Heywood, History Department, Boston University, [email protected]
Prof. John Thornton, History Department, Boston University, [email protected]
Prof. Walter Hawthorne, History Department, Michigan State University, [email protected]
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