Africa

United States of America

Professor

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

jcm7a@cms.mail.virginia.edu

Department of History
Randall Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4180 USA

phone: 434-924-6395 (office)
434-977-4132 (home)
fax: 434-924-7891

(a) historicizing views on the African
past; (b) extended to moving trans-regional historical thinking from its
current bases in social-science epistemologies toward an epistemologically
historical base; (c) slaving on global scales as historical process;
(d) integrating southern Atlantic history into the currently
(north-centered) field of "Atlantic history"; (e) integrating these
perspectives and processes into my (now background) original research
field of lusophone central/southern Africa before the twentieth century.

(a) historicizing views on the African
past; (b) extended to moving trans-regional historical thinking from its
current bases in social-science epistemologies toward an epistemologically
historical base; (c) slaving on global scales as historical process;
(d) integrating southern Atlantic history into the currently
(north-centered) field of "Atlantic history"; (e) integrating these
perspectives and processes into my (now background) original research
field of lusophone central/southern Africa before the twentieth century.

KINGS AND KINSMEN: Early Mbundu States in Angola (Oxford 1976);

THE AFRICAN PAST SPEAKS (ed.) (Folkestone 1980);

WAY OF DEATH (Madison 1988);

SLAVERY AND SLAVING: A Worldwide Bibliography. (Corrected,
reformatted second edition, Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999);

SLAVERY AND SLAVING IN WORLD HISTORY: A Bibliography - Vol. 2, 1992-96. Armonk NY: M.
E. Sharpe, 1999.

History editor, New encyclopedia of Africa (with John Middleton,
editor in chief) 5 v. (Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2008).

Co-editor, with Gwyn Campbell and Suzanne Miers. Women and slavery.
2 v. (Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007)

History editor, Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. (John
Middleton, ed.) (New York: Macmillan Reference/Charles Scribners Sons,
1997).

Co-editor, Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. (New York:
Macmillan, 1998).

"History and Africa/Africa and History." American Historical
Review. 104, 1 (1999), pp. 1-32. [Presidential address, American
Historical Association]

African history ; slavery ; slave trade ; precolonial history.