Kim D. Butler

About

Kim D. Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and holds M.A.s in History from both Johns Hopkins and Howard Universities. Her scholarly specialization is in African diaspora studies, with a particular focus on Brazil and Latin America/Caribbean. Dr. Butler's academic work includes courses such as 'Afro-Atlantic Diaspora' and 'Afro-Brazilian History,' which engage students directly with diaspora studies. She brings expertise in material and oral history, as well as curating experience from the Smithsonian Institution, to her teaching and research. As the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies and a member of the graduate faculty in History, she contributes significantly to graduate education. Her research has resulted in the publication of books and articles on Afro-Brazilian history and diaspora theory, with her most recent work applying advances in diaspora studies to new interpretations of African diaspora history. She is an award-winning historian, having received the Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association, the Letitia Woods Brown Publication Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians, and two Fulbright Fellowships. From 2011 to 2015, she served as President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). Her scholarly contributions include a focus on Afro-Brazilian…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Humanities
• Art
• Internal medicine
• Cardiology
• Law
• History
• Medicine
• Surgery

Selected publications

• Self-expanding Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients

  JAMA Cardiology · 2022 · 169 citations

  Importance: In patients with severe aortic valve stenosis at intermediate surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a self-expanding supra-annular valve was noninferior to surgery for all-cause mortality or disabling stroke at 2 years. Comparisons of longer-term clinical and hemodynamic outcomes in these patients are limited. Objective: To report prespecified secondary 5-year outcomes from the Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in Intermediate Risk Subjects Who Need Aortic Valve…

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• Opportunity Structures in Diaspora Relations: Comparisons in Contemporary Multilevel Politics of Diaspora and Transnational Identity

  2007-01-01 · 34 citations

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  Treats the main characteristics and organizational structures of contemporary ethno-national diasporas, and how their relationships with their homeland and host-society communities might develop; communal strategies and tactics used by diasporas, and how effective they are at influencing the foreign policy of central governments; opportunity structures for diasporas in the postmodern and trans-state social, economic, and political systems; and ways diaspora activities and ethno-national identity…

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• <i>AHR Conversation</i>: Black Internationalism

  The American Historical Review · 2020 · 33 citations

  Abstract This annual AHR Conversation focuses on the issues and historiographic debates raised by the term “Black Internationalism.” Participants Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Benjamin Talton, and Kira Thurman bring a wide array of interests and areas of expertise to bear on the origins, evolution, and meaning of the concept of Black Internationalism; its application within Africa, the U.S., and the African diaspora more generally; and its re…

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• From Black History to Diasporan History: Brazilian Abolition in Afro-Atlantic Context

  African Studies Review · 2000-04-01 · 29 citations

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  L'A. examine la construction et l'utilisation d'une structure diasporique pour analyser l'histoire afro-atlantique pendant la periode suivant l'abolition de l'esclavage. Il synthetise les resultats de ses recherches portant sur les cinquante premieres annees suivant la fin de l'esclavage au Bresil (1888-1938). L'utilisation d'une base diasporique a permis de clarifier des schemas autrement obscurcis par les approches monographiques traditionnelles comparables a d'autres communautes afro-atlantiq…

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• Slavery in the Age of Emancipation: Victims and Rebels in Brazil’s Late 19th-Century Domestic Trade

  Journal of Black Studies · 2011-04-26 · 24 citations

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  The trajectory from slavery to freedom is generally told in linear fashion, yet for thousands of Black people in the Americas, the last decades of slavery were a time of expanding bondage. In Brazil, an internal slave trade shifted over 200,000 people from struggling northeastern plantations to the south-central region, where commercial coffee agriculture was quickly becoming the nation’s principal export sector. Scholars are increasingly exploring the ways in which African descendants became ag…

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Frequent coauthors

• B. J. Barickman

  Cornell University

  10 shared

• Jaloto Celso

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  9 shared

• Fagundes Neves

  9 shared

• Peter Beattie

  Latin American Institute

  9 shared

• Teresa Dos

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  9 shared

• Luiz Mott

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  9 shared

• Reis Lima

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  9 shared

• Marcus Joaquim Maciel De Carvalho

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

  9 shared

Labs

• Black Ecologies LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., History

  Johns Hopkins University

  1995

• M.A., History

  Johns Hopkins University

• M.A., History

  Howard University

Awards & honors

• Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the Amer…
• Letitia Woods Brown Publication Prize from the Association o…
• Fulbright Fellowship (twice)
• President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide…

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