Linda Heywood

Linda Marinda Heywood (born 1945) is a professor of African American studies and history at Boston University.[1]

Linda Heywood, 2016

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

References

1. "Linda Heywood » African American Studies - Boston University". Bu.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
2. "Dr. Linda M. Heywood - Virginia 2019 Commemoration". Americanrevolution2019.com. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
3. "Njinga of Angola — Linda M. Heywood - Harvard University Press". Hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
4. "African Queen". Pri.org. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
5. "Linda Heywood, "Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen" (Harvard University Press, 2017) -". Newbooksnetwork.com. Retrieved 18 July 2018.