Research Keywords

• Atlantic Slave Trade, Columbian Exchange, West Africa, Slavery, Guinea-Bissau, Brazil, Upper Guinea

Research Areas

• Social

Time Periods

• Premodern, 18th Century, 19th Century

Affiliations

• African Studies Center

Recent or current courses

• HST 830 - Seminar in African History (Fall 2009)

Significant Scholarly Activities

Books

• Walter Hawthorne, Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves : Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2003.
• Walter Hawthorne, From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600 to 1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, expected in late 2010, .

Journal Articles

• Walter Hawthorne. "Being now, as it were, one family,’: Shipmate bonding on the slave vessel Emilia, in Rio de Janeiro and throughout the Atlantic World." Luso-Brazilian Review . (Jan 2009):
• Walter Hawthorne. "Nourishing a Stateless Society during the Slave Trade: The Rise of Balanta Paddy-Rice Production in Guinea-Bissau." Journal of African History 42. (2001): 1-24.
• Walter Hawthorne. "The Production of Slaves Where There Was No State: The Guinea-Bissau Region, c. 1450 - c. 1815." Slavery and Abolition 20.2 (1999): 97-124.
• Walter Hawthorne. "Kriston Atlantic Communities: Connecting Northeastern Brazil, Portugal and Upper Guinea, 1650-1830." Article in process .
• Walter Hawthorne. "Choosing slavery?: A Slave Named Jorge and His ‘Flights’ from ‘Freedom’ back to his master in Bahia in the 1800-1836." Slavery and Abolition . (Under consideration):
• Walter Hawthorne. "From ‘Black Rice’ to ‘Brown’: Rethinking the History of Risiculture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Atlantic." American Historical Review . (February 2010):

Book Chapter/Articles

• Walter Hawthorne, "The Strategies of Small-Scale Societies: Defending Communities from Slave Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815." In Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade, edited by Sylviane Diouf. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003:
• Walter Hawthorne, "Migrations and Statelessness: The Expansion of the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau, 1900-1950." In Migrations anciennes et peuplement actuel des Côtes guinéennes, edited by Gérald Gaillard. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000:

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellowship, for research in Guinea-Bissau, Portugal and Brazil, September 2004-September 2005
• Fulbright Fellowship for dissertation research in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, October 1994 to September 1995
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship, for work on a book manuscript, August 15, 2008-August 14,2009