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forthcoming). She is also a network professor for the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African People at York University, Canada, and a collaborator on the project Naus do Purgatório: Escravidão e Tráfico Atlântico (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil).
Lisa Earl Castillo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Brazil where she also earned her PhD in Letras. She is the author of Entre a oralidade e a escrita: A etnografia no candomblé da Bahia and of various scholarly articles on Afro-Brazilian religion. She is also the coauthor of “Marcelina da Silva: A Nineteenth-Century Candomblé Priestess in Bahia,” which was published in Slavery and Abolition (2010).
Sharla Fett is an associate professor of history at Occidental College, where she teaches courses on U.S. and Atlantic World slavery as well as race, gender and health. She is the author of Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (University of North Carolina Press). In addition, Dr. Fett has published in Slavery and Abolition as well as in New Studies in the History of American Slavery, edited by Stephanie Camp and Edward Baptist. Her current project, provisionally titled Double Crossings: Liberated Africans and the Racial Politics of U.S. Slavery Suppression examines the traumatic journeys and popular reception of liberated Africans in U.S. custody on the eve of the American Civil War.
Céline Flory is a PhD candidate in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, France) under the supervision of Myriam Cottias (CIRESC, CNRS). Her PhD thesis is entitled “Work, Coercion, Insertion: The African Indentured Labor in French Guiana and the French West Indies (1848–1889).” Céline Flory is a member of the Centre International de Recherches sur les Esclavages (CIRESC) and is one of the organizers of the monthly seminar “Social and Cultural History of the Slavery and Post-Slavery Societies.” She published “Le ‘Noir’: Permanence des représentations et travail libre, 1848–1860,” in L’histoire de la Guyane depuis les civilisations amérindiennes, edited by Mam Lam Fouck and Zonzon (Ibis Rouge Editions).
Jeffrey Fortin is anassistant professor of colonial American and Atlantic History at SUNY-Oneonta. He has published in journals such as Citizenship Studies and Atlantic Studies. He has presented at several conferences in America and abroad, including Harvard University’s International Seminar on Atlantic History (Cambridge University, UK), the Omohundro Institute’s annual conference, the Society of Early Americanists’ biennial conference, the Mystic Seaport Museum, and at several other universities and organizations. He has received
fellowships from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the International Center for Jefferson Studies (Monticello, VA.), the University of New Hampshire, and the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Dr. Fortin contributed a chapter to Routledge’s upcoming The Atlantic World: 1400–1850.
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie is an associate professor of history at Howard University. He has authored Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900 (University of North Carolina Press), Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Louisiana State University Press), and an electronic anthology African American Social Movements (ProQuest). He has published articles in The Journal of African American History, Slavery and Abolition, Souls, and Nature, Society, and Thought, as well as contributed several book chapters.
Craig T. Marin is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Rhode Island’s Providence Campus, where he teaches Early American, African American, and Atlantic History. He earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was trained as an Atlantic and Early American historian under the direction of Marcus Rediker. His research focused on the complex interactions of black and white, and elite and nonelite actors along Charleston’s waterfront.
Gunja SenGupta is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840–1918 (New York University Press) and her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of Negro History, Civil War History, and Kansas History, among other publications.
Wendy Wilson-Fall is a tenured associate professor in Pan-African Studies and an adjunct in the Department of Anthropology at Kent State University. She has published on the subjects of pastoralism, gender, and rural development in Africa; her work has appeared in the journals Nomadic Peoples and African Philosophy, as well as in the IIE series on rural development. Two of her monographs have covered these themes, one focusing on contemporary nomadic life (Nomads’ Dialogue) and the other a study on rural life in central Senegal published by the Drylands Institute in the UK. She has also published several book chapters on these topics in volumes edited by Momar Diop (Karthala) and by I. William Zartman (Johns Hopkins Press).
Peter H. Wood is a U.S. historian who worked as a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching colonial American history at Duke