Faculty

Rosanne Adderley
Associate Professor in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS).
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

African diaspora history, with emphasis on Atlantic slave trade, comparative slavery, emancipation, Caribbean basin, social and cultural history

Telephone:  615-343-1758
Email:  rosanne.adderley@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours:  On Leave 2008-2009
Office:  227 Buttrick Hall

Curriculum vitae

Professor Adderley is a historian of the African diaspora in the Americas, with emphasis on the years of the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of people of African descent throughout the region.  She has particular interests in the nineteenth-century and the ‘age of emancipation’ and also in the Caribbean basin.  Her first book, “New Negroes from Africa” :  Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean was a co-winner of the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize awarded jointly by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African-American History and Life.  “New Negroes from Africa” also received an Honorable Mention from the Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Award Committee of the Caribbean Studies Association in 2008.  Professor Adderley’s current research includes a monograph tentatively entitled Horrors Committed :  a Story of Slave Ship Rape, and several articles on the experience of free Africans in the nineteenth-century British Caribbean.  She has other ongoing research on black experience during the ocean crossing of the Atlantic slave trade, and also on the lives of the Africans rescued from the slave ship Amistad during their temporary stay in New England.  Her current research has been supported by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Vanderbilt University Center for the Americas.  Professor Adderley came to Vanderbilt in July 2007 from the Department of History at Tulane University, where she worked for 11 years, and where she was also affiliated with the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies. Professor Adderley’s primary appointment at Vanderbilt is as Associate Professor in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS).

Courses taught:
AADS African Atlantic Slave Trade
AADS Caribbean Culture
AADS Slavery and Public Memory
AADS Africans in the Americas
AADS African Religion in the Americas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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