Ph.D, 1980, John Hopkins University
M.A., 1975, Johns Hopkins University
B.A., 1973, York University

Associate Director, Associate Professor
(York University)

Publications:

Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, (London: Macmillan Caribbean, 2004) - with Gad Heuman

'Community of Believers: Trinidad Muslims and the Return to Africa, 1810-1850,' in Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam, (New Jersey: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2004), pp. 219-232 - with Paul E. Lovejoy

'Introduction' in Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, (London: Macmillan Caribbean, 2004) - with Gad Heuman.

'Capping the Volcano: Riots and their Suppression in Post-Emancipation Trinidad' in Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, (London: Macmillan Caribbean, 2004).

Busha's Mistress: A Stirring Romance from the Days of Slavery in Jamaica, by Cyrus Francis Perkins, (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2003) - with Paul E. Lovejoy and Verene A. Shepherd.

Transatlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora, (London: Continuum, 2003) - with Paul E. Lovejoy

"Ethnicity and the African Diaspora," in Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman (eds.), Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora, (London: Continuum) - with Paul E. Lovejoy

"Africanizing and Creolizing the Plantation Frontier of Trinidad, 1787-1834" in Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman (eds.) Transatlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora (London: Continuum, 2002), pp. 218-239.

"Enslaved Africans and their Expectations of Slave Life in the Americas: Towards a Reconsideration of Models of 'Creolisation'" in Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture eds. Verene A. Shepherd and Glen L. Richards (Oxford: James Currey Publishers; Kingston, Jamaica, Ian Randle Publishers, 2002), pp. 67-91 - with Paul E. Lovejoy

"Experiencias de Vida y Expectativas: Nociones Africanas Sobre la Esclavitud y la Realidad en América" in Rina Cáceres (ed.) Rutas de la Esclavitud en África y América Latina (San José, Costa Rica: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001), pp. 379-404 - with Paul E. Lovejoy

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