Joseph C. Miller
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor
Corcoran Department of History

Inside Africa: The History Behind the Exhibit
February 20, 2005
Norfolk, VA

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About the speaker

Professor Miller is an internationally recognized expert on worldwide slave trade and former president of American Historical Association. His current research includes a world history of slavery from the earliest human times through the nineteenth century.

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Publications, Awards, and Activities

History and Africa/ Africa and History, American Historical Review, 104, 1 (1999), pp. 1-32. Presidential address, American Historical Association.

Editor (with Paul Finkelman), Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Macmillan, 1999.

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-1991. Millwood NY: Kraus International, 1993. (10,344 entries, xiii+584 pp.); Corrected, reformatted second edition, Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography - Vol 2, 1992-96. Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. (3897 entries, xxi + 244 pp.)

Editor, Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara (for history). Macmillan, 1997.

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Winner of the 1989 Melville Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association. Special citation, Bolton Prize Committee, Conference of Latin American Historians.

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1982. Millwood NY: Kraus International, 1993. (10,344 entries, xiii+584 pp.)

Nominated for 1994 Conover-Porter Price (African Studies Association)

Corrected, reformatted second edition, Armonk NY: M.E. Sharepe, 1999Editor of The African Past Speaks: Essays on Oral Tradition and History. Dawson Publishing, 1980.

Slavery: A Comparative Teaching Bibliography. Crossroads Press, 1977.

Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Clarendon Press, 1976.

Translated as Poder Político e Parentesco. Arquivo Histórico Nacional, Angola, 1996.More than 60 chapters, articles, and other essays.

Editor, Journal of African History, 1990-96.

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