University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Faculty

Rebecca Shumway

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

Fields	Africa Ghana Atlantic World
Teaching	History of Africa to 1800 History of Africa Since 1800 History of Southern Africa West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade Writing Seminar for History Majors Spiritual Crossings in the Atlantic World, Graduate Seminar Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Cultures of the Americas, Graduate Seminar
Selected Publications	The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, University of Rochester Press, 2011. "Abolition of the Slave Trade: Repercussions in Africa," Islas: Official Publication of the Afro-Cuban Alliance, 2, no. 8 (2007): 35-38 Selected Contributions to Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage (Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, eds.) Greenwood Milestones in African American History. Greenwood Press, 2007. Review of William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark and Edward A. Alpers, Africa and the West: A Documentary History, in H-Net Reviews, (https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=30970) Review of Gracia Clark, African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 43, 1 (2010) 395-97 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	University of Pittsburgh nominee to compete for an NEH Summer Stipends award, 2012 World History Center Faculty Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2011, $2,000 Provost's Faculty Diversity Seminar Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2011, $1,500 NEH Summer Seminar Grant, "Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Cultures of the Americas (Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2009 New Course Development Grant, African Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2008 Third Term Research Stipend, Faculty Grants Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2007 African Studies Program Faculty Mini-Grant, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 Faculty Research Grant, College of Graduate Studies & Research, Minnesota State University, 2006 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, Ghana, 2000-2001
Project(s)	"The Fante in the Nineteenth Century," book-length research project in progress "Fante and Asante in the Precolonial Era," chapter in progress for the forthcoming Festschrift in honor of Kwame Arhin, edited by Dr. Kwabena Akurang-Parry "The Changing Identity of Fante Elites in the Era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade," chapter in progress for the forthcoming volume Moving Communities and Networks in the Era of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, edited by Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo "The 'Castle Slaves' of the Gold Coast (Ghana)," paper submitted to Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies "Early African Nationalists or Atlantic Creoles? Reassessing the History of the Fante in the Nineteenth Century," paper in progress for submission to History of Africa: A Journal of Method