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Rebecca Shumway

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2004, Emory University
University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-648-7476
shumway@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s)

Africa, Ghana, Atlantic World

Teaching

History of Africa to 1800
History of Africa Since 1800
The African Roots of American Cultures
History of South Africa

Selected Publications

Review of Turner, Jack. Spice: The History of a Temptation. New York: Knopf, 2004, for Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, XXIX.3 (2005): 140-42.

Honors/Awards

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, Ghana, 2000-2001

Project(s)

Fante Society [Ghana] during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade:  A book-length manuscript tracing social and political transformations in coastal Ghana, and their articulation with trans-Atlantic processes, during the eighteenth century.

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