Linda Heywood
Linda Heywood | |
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Born | 1945 (age 75–76) |
Occupation | Professor |
Spouse(s) | John Thornton |
Awards | 2008 Herskovits Prize (with John Thornton) |
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Academic work | |
Institutions | Boston University |
Linda Marinda Heywood (born 1945) is a professor of African American studies and history at Boston University.[1]
Heywood has a BA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Columbia University.[2] In 2008, she shared the Herskovits Prize for her book (co-authored with her husband John Thornton) Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660.
Selected publications[]
- Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present. University of Rochester Press, Rochester, 2000. ISBN 1580460631
- Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora. Cambridge University Press, 2001. (editor and contributor) ISBN 978-0521802437
- Central African, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America 1585-1660. Cambridge University Press, 2007. (with John Thornton) ISBN 978-0521770651
- Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen. Harvard University Press, 2017.[3][4][5] ISBN 978-0674971820
References[]
- ^ "Linda Heywood | African American Studies". Boston University. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
- ^ "Dr. Linda M. Heywood". AmericanEvolution2019.com. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "Njinga of Angola — Linda M. Heywood - Harvard University Press". Hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
- ^ "African Queen". PRI.org. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
- ^ "Linda Heywood, "Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen" (Harvard University Press, 2017) -". Newbooksnetwork.com. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
Categories:
- Boston University faculty
- Brooklyn College alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- 21st-century American historians
- American women historians
- African-American women academics
- African-American academics
- Historians of Africa
- Historians of the United States
- 1945 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American women writers
- American academic biography stubs