Linda Heywood

Linda Heywood
Heywood in 2016
Born	1945 (age 75–76)
Occupation	Professor
Spouse(s)	John Thornton
Awards	2008 Herskovits Prize (with John Thornton)
Academic background
Education	Brooklyn College (B.A.) Columbia University (Ph.D.)
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

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