Rebecca J. Scott
Encyclopedia
Rebecca Jarvis Scott is an American historian
, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan
.
with an A.B., from the London School of Economics
with an M. Phil in economic history, and from Princeton University
with a Ph.D.. In 1987, she co-founded the Postemancipation Societies Project. She is co-director of the Law in Slavery and Freedom project.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
.
Life
She graduated from Radcliffe CollegeRadcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
with an A.B., from the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
with an M. Phil in economic history, and from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
with a Ph.D.. In 1987, she co-founded the Postemancipation Societies Project. She is co-director of the Law in Slavery and Freedom project.
Works
- Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780674019324
- Societies after Slavery, Editors Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, Aims Mcguinness, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, ISBN 9780822958482
- Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000, ISBN 9780822957355
- Beyond Slavery, Authors Frederick Cooper, Thomas Cleveland Holt, Rebecca Jarvis Scott, UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 9780807848548
- "Exploring the Meaning of Freedom", The Abolition of slavery and the aftermath of emancipation in Brazil, Editor Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Duke University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780822308881
- "Beyond Comparison and Case Study", Cuban studies since the revolution, Editor Damián J. Fernández, University Press of Florida, 1992, ISBN 9780813011240
External links
- "Book Review", American Historical Review, Vol 112 No 1, September 2007