Dr. Cummings is jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies at Rhode Island College. Her research interests include Africa and the Atlantic World, Early African American History and Africana Intellectual History. …
Nathalie Miraval is a PhD Candidate in the Art History Department at Yale University. Her research focuses on the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race…
Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica which examines the struggles for control over biological…
The US Navy and the Marine Corps were founded in Philadelphia in 1775 and will mark their 250th anniversary in the city of their birth in October 2025 (see www.homecoming250.org). To coincide with the anniversary, this…
