Sowande Mustakeem

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies Program

Office Contact Information

Degree
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Degree
M.A., Ohio State University
Degree
B.A., Elon University
Office
Busch Hall, room 132
Office hours
Tuesday 10am-noon
Mailbox

Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1062
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Phone
314-935-3442
Fax
314-935-4399

Research specialization

Publications

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).

Curriculum Vitae 
Courses

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