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Sowande Mustakeem

Sowande Mustakeem

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies Program
Degrees: 
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.A., Ohio State University
B.A., Elon University
CV: 
Sowande Mustakeem (PDF)
E-mail: 
mustakee@wustl.edu
Phone: 
314-935-3442
Fax: 
314-935-4399
Office: 
Busch Hall, room 132
Office Hours: 
ON LEAVE
Mailbox: 

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

Publications

Books

Routes of Terror: Gender, Health and Power in the Eighteenth Century Middle Passage (Book manuscript, in progress)

Articles and Essays

"'She Must Go Overboard & Shall Go Overboard’: Diseased Bodies and the Spectacle of Murder at Sea," in 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).

Courses

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

Mapping the World of ‘Black Criminality’

Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History

Slavery and Memory in American Popular Culture

Terror and Violence in the Black Atlantic

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