Sowande Mustakeem
Office Contact Information
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1062
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Research specialization
Peer Reviewed Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:
“‘She Must Go Overboard & Shall Go Overboard’: Diseased Bodies and the Spectacle of Murder at Sea” Atlantic Studies 8.3 (Fall 2011): 301-316"
'I Never Have Such A Sickly Ship Before': Diet, Disease, and Mortality in 18th-Century Atlantic Slaving Voyages," in Journal of African American History 93 (Fall 2008): pp. 474-496.
"'Make Haste & Let Me See You With A Good Cargo of Negroes': Gender, Power, and the Centrality of Violence in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic Slave Trade," in Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America, edited by Glenn Gordinier. (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008), 3-21.
"Far Cry From a Fantasy Voyage: The Impact of the Middle Passage on Slave Societies Across the Atlantic World," in ISLAS: Official Publication of the Afro-Cuban Alliance, Inc. Year 2, No. 8, (Fall 2007).
Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History
Slavery and Memory in American Popular Culture
Critical Themes in African-American Women's History: Sexuality, Violence and the Love of Hip Hop
Gender, Health, and Resistance: Comparative Slavery in the African Diaspora
Terror and Violence in the Black Atlantic