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Matt D. Childs is Director of the History Center at the University of South Carolina. He stared teaching at the University of South Carolina in the Fall of 2009. Before joining the History Department at USC, Childs taught at Florida State University from 2001-2008. His primary research and teaching interests are Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic history with a particular emphasis on the importance of understanding the historical legacies of slavery and racism in shaping the modern world. Professor Childs is the author of The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery (2006), which was a finalist for the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and translated and published in Cuba in 2012. Matt Childs has co-edited with Toyin Falola The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (2005) and The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essay in Honor or Robin Law (2009). Childs served as an Associate Editor for the 6 volume Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (2008). Two edited books will be forthcoming over the next year: The Urban Black Atlantic during the Era of the Slave Trade, co-edited book with James Sidbury and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (University of Pennsylvania Press, Spring 2013) - which consists of thirteen chapters that focus on the urban Black Atlantic experience in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe; and Igbos in the Atlantic World: Slavery and Cultural Adaptation in the African Diaspora, Co-edited book with Toyin Falola (Rochester University Press, forthcoming Fall 2013) - which consist of 21 chapters covering the Igbo experience in Africa and the Diaspora from cultural and historical perspectives.