Roquinaldo Ferreira
Associate Professor (2006)
Office Hours: T & Th 2:00-3:30
Office: Nau Hall 255
Phone: 434 924-7949
Email: rf2n (at) virginia.edu
Fields & Specialties
Early Africa, Colonial Brazil, Atlantic WorldEducation
BA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1992
MA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1996
PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2003
Articles and Book Chapters (past five years)
● “Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in Angola”, in David Eltis and Stanley Engerman (eds), Cambridge History of Slavery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 111-132.
● “A Institucionalização dos Estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos: Advento, Consolidação e Transformações", Revista Brasileira de História, 59, 2010, pp. 71-88.
● “A Primeira “Partilha” da África: Decadência e Ressurgência do Comércio Português na Costa do Ouro (ca. 1637-ca. 1700)”, Revista Varia História, 43, 2010, pp. 479-498.
● “A Arte de Contrabandear: Redes de Comércio Ilegal no Império Português (ca. 1680- ca. 1750)”, in João Fragoso e Maria de Fátima Silva Gouvêa (eds.), Na Trama das Redes: Política e Negócios no Império Português, séculos XVI-XVIII (Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2010), pp. 203-243.
● “The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s”, in David Eltis and David Richardson, Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 313-334.
● “Supply and Deployment of Horses in Angolan Warfare (17th-18th centuries)”, in Beatrix Heintze and Achim von Oppen (eds), Angola on the Move: Transport Routes, Communications, and History (Frankfurt/Main: Otto Lembeck Publishers, 2008), pp. 41-51.
● "A Miragem da Miscigenação entre Ideologias e Dinâmicas do Brasil Escravista” (with Flávio Gomes), CEBRAP, 2008, pp. 141-160.
● “Atlantic Microhistories: Slaving, Mobility, and Personal Ties in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil)”, in Nancy Naro, Roger Sansi and David Treece (eds.), Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 99-128.
● “O Brasil e a Arte da Guerra em Angola (sécs. XVII e XVIII)”. Rio de Janeiro, Revista Estudos Históricos, 39, 2007, pp. 1-23.
● “Ilhas Crioulas: O Significado Plural da Mestiçagem Cultural na África Atlântica”. São Paulo, Revista de História, 155, 2007, pp. 17-43.
● “The Atlantic Networks of the Benguela Slave Trade (1730-1800)”, in CEAP (ed.), Trabalho Forçado Africano: Experiências Coloniais Comparadas (Lisboa: Campo das Letras, 2006), pp. 66-99.
● ”Biografia, Mobilidade e Cultura Atlântica: A Micro-Escala do Tráfico de Escravos em Benguela, séculos XVIII-XIX”. Rio de Janeiro, Revista Tempo, 2006, pp. 33-59.
● “Abolicionismo e o Fim do Tráfico de Escravos em Angola, séc. XIX”. Rio de Janeiro, Cadernos CHDD, 2005, pp. 159-176.
Work in progress
Book
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in May 2012)
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6671160/?site_locale=en_GB
Book, Articles, and book chapters
● “From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese Rivalry, Gold-Smuggling, and African Politics in the Bight of Benin (ca. 1700-ca. 1730)”, in Michiel van Groesen (ed.), The Legacy of Dutch Brazil.
● “The Atlantic Odyssey of Manoel de Salvador: Slavery and Social Life in Luanda (Angola)”, in Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, James Sidbury and Matt Childs (eds.), The Black Atlantic: An Urban Perspective.
● “Agricultural Enterprise and Unfree Labor in Nineteenth-Century Angola”, in Silke Strickrod and Robin Law (eds.), Commercial Agriculture as an Alternative to the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Africa.
● “Biography as Social History: The Ferreira Gomes’ Family and the Worlds of Slaving in the South Atlantic World”, in Lisa Lindsay and John Sweet (eds.), the Black Atlantic and the Biographical Turn.
● “Tribunal de Mucanos: Slavery and Freedom in Angola (17th-19th centuries)", Africana Studia, Portugal.
Awards (past five years)
● National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012-2013
● University of Virginia, Summer Stipend Award, 2012
● University of Virginia, Faculty Research Travel Grant in International Studies, 2012
● University of Virginia, Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011
● University of Virginia, Summer Stipend Award, 2011
● University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar Grant, 2010
● University of Virginia, Professors as Writers Grant, 2010
● University of Virginia, Research Support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009
● American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2008
● University of Virginia, Harrison Research Award (Faculty Sponsor), Center for Undergraduate Excellence, 2007
● Harvard University, Residential Fellowship at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, 2006
● Harvard University, Residential Fellowship at David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2006
● Yale University, Residential Fellowship at Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, 2006
● National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (Brazil), Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2005
