Selected Publications
Articles and Reviews
2025 | “From the City Jail to the Penitentiary: Women, Girls, and Crime in the American Midwest”, in Basile Baudez and Victoria Bergbauer, eds, Carceral Architecture: From Within and Beyond The Prison Walls, (Berlin, Germany: Jovis Publishers, 2025).
2024 | “Tides of Remembrance: People, Power, and Nations Unlocked”, Epilogue in Ramona Negron, Jessica den Ousten, Camilla de Koning, and Karwan Fatah Black, editors, The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade: New Methods, Perspectives, and Sources. (The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2024): 255-262.
2021 | “Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans,” Review of Andrew Baker’s To Poison A Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and The Rise of Jim Crow the AAIHS (African American Intellectual Historical Society), December 2021.
2016 | Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Urbana Champagne, IL. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
2015 | ‘Armed With a Knife in Her Bosom’: Gender, Violence, and the Carceral Consequences of Rage in the Late Nineteenth Century”, Special Issue: Gendering the Carceral State: African American Women, History, and Criminal Justice, The Journal of African American History, Guest Editors, Kali Gross and Cheryl Hicks, Vol. 100 (Summer 2015): 385-406.
2014 | “Suffering at the Margins: (Re)-Centering Black Women in Discourses on Violence and Crime”, Review Essay of The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth Ritchie, and Breaking Women: The Politics of Imprisonment by Jill McCorkel, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol 42: 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 319-323.
2013 | “Blood Stained Mirrors: Decoding the American Slave Trading Past” in Understanding and Teaching American Slavery. Bethany Jay and Lynne Waverly, editors. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016: 77-95.
2012 | “Breaking the Chains: Un-Silencing the American Slaving Past” in Teaching Lincoln: Legacies and Classroom Strategies. Caroline Pryor and Stephen Hansen, editors. New York: Peter & Lang Press, 2013: 121-128.
2011 | “‘She Must Go Overboard & Shall Go Overboard’: Diseased Bodies and the Spectacle of Murder at Sea”, Atlantic Studies 8.3 (Sept, 2011): 301-316.
2008 | “‘I Never Have Such A Sickly Ship Before’: Diet, Disease, and Mortality In 18th - Century Atlantic Slaving Voyages,” Special Issue: “Ending the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”. The Journal of African American History 93 (Fall, 2008): 474-496.
2008 | “‘Make Haste & Let Me See You With A Good Cargo of Negroes’: Gender, Power, and the Centrality of Violence in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic Slave Trade,” in Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America. Glenn Gordinier, editor. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008: 3-21.
Dr. Mustakeem in Public Dialogue
Dr. Mustakeem Courses (Current/Forthcoming)
Spring 2026
- Historical Methods: History, Memory, and the Archive
- 1st Year Seminar: Critical Themes in African-American Women’s History: Sexuality, Violence, and The Love of Hip Hop
Fall 2026
- Sophomore Seminar: Slavery and Memory in American Popular Culture
- Visualizing Blackness: Histories of the African Diaspora Through Film
Past Courses
- Women and Crime in the Evolution of American History
- Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History
- Gender, Health, and Resistance: Comparative Slavery in the African Diaspora
- Hands on the Past: History, Murder, and The Archive
- Mapping the World of ‘Black Criminality’
- Terror and Violence in the Black Atlantic
History reading for *HIGH SCHOOL* level beginners on the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade
2007 | “Far Cry From a Fantasy Voyage: The Impact of the Middle Passage on Slave Societies Across the Atlantic World”, Islas, Year 2, No.8, (2007): 28-35.
Dr. Mustakeem - Notes to 1st Time Junior Faculty (Audio) Series
Mustakeem #Bookshorts & His/Herstoric Sites
#Bookshorts
A Must Read: 10 Years Later
Slavery at Sea: Legacies
Tides of Remembrance - Serving Up History!
Carceral Architecture - Reflections on Herstory
History Made & Written
New Book Must Read
Coffee & Capote
**His/Herstoric Sites**
The Search for Annice
The Nameless Lady Statue in Liberty
History in Missouri - Arrival
Historic House - Entrance
Historic House - Exit
Historic House - Original Site of House Removed
Historic House - Outro
Liberty Historic Bank Site
