Stephanie Smallwood

About

Stephanie Smallwood is an Associate Professor and the Dio Richardson Endowed Professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Comparative History of Ideas. Her research focuses on historical topics related to the Atlantic World, slavery, and social history. As a scholar, she has contributed to the understanding of the transatlantic slave trade and its impacts, emphasizing the social and cultural dimensions of history. Her academic background and key contributions are not detailed on the provided page, but her role as a professor and her endowed chair position highlight her prominence in her field. She is actively involved in teaching and research, engaging with students and colleagues to advance knowledge in her areas of expertise.

Research topics

• History
• Geography
• Sociology
• Political science
• Library science

Selected publications

• Saltwater Slavery

  Harvard University Press eBooks · 2007-12-31 · 544 citations

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• Saltwater Slavery

  Harvard University Press eBooks · 2008-12-15 · 237 citations

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• The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved

  History of the Present · 2016-10-01 · 67 citations

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  Research Article| October 01 2016 The Politics of the Archive and History's Accountability to the Enslaved Stephanie E. Smallwood Stephanie E. Smallwood Stephanie Smallwood is associate professor of history at the University of Washington. Her current book project, Africa in the Atlantic World: A Geopolitical History, investigates the ways geopolitics, slavery, and race structured the early modern Atlantic as an uneven spatial domain. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hi…

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• Commodified Freedom: Interrogating the Limits of Anti-Slavery Ideology in the Early Republic

  University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks · 2005-12-31 · 38 citations

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  Historians have long understood relationship between and in western culture as a to be explained, a paradox to be resolved. Whereas long-held view has explained relationship as one in which in Western is understood to have been to some degree on slave systems western Europe also developed, David Eltis recently has offered a convincing argument relationship can be better understood in properly historical terms by reversing formulation: the rise of in Americas, Eltis argues, dependent on nature of…

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• African Guardians, European Slave Ships, and the Changing Dynamics of Power in the Early Modern Atlantic

  The William and Mary Quarterly · 2007-10-01 · 33 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Chandan K. Reddy

  25 shared

• Martha Biondi

  Wayne State University

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• Michael Honey

  University of Washington Tacoma

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• Bill Fletcher

  New York University

  25 shared

• Margaret Levi

  Stanford University

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• Moon Ho

  Columbia University

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• Bruce Burgett

  Northwestern University

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• Jim Gregory

  Northwest University

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Labs

• Department of History, University of WashingtonPI

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