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Rebecca Shumway

  • Associate Professor, History
  • Affiliated Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS)

Education

  • PhD, History, Emory University, 2004
  • MA, History, Emory University, 1998
  • BA, History and African Studies, Northwestern University, 1995

Courses Taught

  • West Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Seminar in History: Africans, Slavery and the Atlantic World
  • The Myth of the Dark Continent: Africa and Racism
  • Africans in World History: Communities, Cultures, and Ideas
  • History of Southern Africa
  • Honors Seminar: Gold and Vibranium, Reality and Myth in African History
  • Graduate Seminar: African Roots of American Cultures

Teaching Interests

  • Precolonial Africa
  • West Africa and the Slave Trade
  • Africa and Racism
  • Comparative Slavery
  • African Roots of American Culture

Research Interests

  • History of Africa
  • Precolonial West Africa
  • Slavery and Slave Trade
  • State Formation and Cultural Identity
  • African Diaspora

Related Activities

Faculty Coordinator, African Studies Forum

 

Biographical Sketch

Rebecca Shumway is an historian of 18th and 19th century West Africa and the Atlantic World with a focus on coastal Ghana (Fante).

Selected Publications

Shumway, Rebecca. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011.
Shumway, Rebecca, and Trevor R. Getz, eds. Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Shumway, Rebecca. "." Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. (2022).
Shumway, Rebecca. "." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 64, no. 2 (2022): 80-91.
Shumway, Rebecca. "West Africa, 1500–1825." In The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1: 1500–1820, edited by Carla Gardina Pestana, Eliga Gould and Paul Mapp, 297-313. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Shumway, Rebecca. "." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Shumway, Rebecca. "Naming Our African Ancestors: Pushing, and Respecting, the Limits." Journal of the Early Republic 40, no. 2 (2020): 195-200.
Shumway, Rebecca. "Exploiting British Ambivalence in West Africa: Fante Sovereignty in the Early Nineteenth Century." In Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age, edited by Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell, 72-90, 2018.
Shumway, Rebecca. "Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth Century Fanteland." In Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora, edited by Rebecca Shumway and Trevor R. Getz, 85-104. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017.
Shumway, Rebecca. "From Atlantic Creoles to African Nationalists: Reflections on the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Fanteland." History in Africa 42 (2015): 139-64.
Shumway, Rebecca. "Castle Slaves of the Eighteenth Century Gold Coast." Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 35, no. 1 (2014): 84-98.
Shumway, Rebecca. "Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa)." Chap. 7 In Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900, edited by Saliha Belmessous, 161-85. New York: Oxford, 2014.
Shumway, Rebecca. "Precolonial Political Systems." In , edited by Thomas Spear New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Shumway, Rebecca. "The Fante Shrine of Nananom Mpow and the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana." International Journal of African Historical Studies 44, no. 1 (2011): 27-44.