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职称:Professor
所属学校:Boston University
所属院系:College of Arts & Sciences
所属专业:African-American/Black Studies
联系方式:617-358-3389
Linda Heywood is a professor of African History and the History of the African Diaspora and African American Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Contested Power in Angola, editor of and contributor to Central Africans Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, and co-author with John Thornton of Central African, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America (Cambridge University Press, July, 2007) which was the winner of the 2008 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book published in African Studies. She is also one of the co-editors of the 2015 published book, African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama (University of Illinois, Press, 2015). Her articles on Angola and the African Diaspora have appeared in The Journal of African History, Journal of Modern African Studies, Slavery and Abolition, and the Journal of Southern African Studies. She has served as a consultant for numerous museum exhibitions, including African Voices at the Smithsonian Institution, Against Human Dignity sponsored by the Maritime Museum, the exhibit on 17th on Africa at the Jamestown and Yorktown Settlement Victory Center, and the recently opened exhibit “Spirits of the Passage” at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. She was also one of the history consultants and appeared in Henry Louis Gates PBS series African American Lives (2006) and Finding Oprah’s Roots (2007). She was a consultant for Henry Louis Gates PBS series Blacks in Latin America and is also a consultant for Prof. Henry Louis Gates PBS series “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.” Her completed manuscript Queen Njinga Mbandi of Angola: A Biography,” is now being considered for publication. She is completing another manuscript,t Queen Njinga: History and Memory in Angola and the African Diaspora.
