Elliott P. Skinner Book Award

2021

  • Isabella Alexanda-Nathani (UCLA), Burning art Europe’s Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant’s Experience in Morrocco, Oxford University Press (2021)
  • Dan Hicks, (University of Oxford), The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Pluto Press (2020)

2020

  • Jatin Dua (University of Michigan), Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019)
    • Finalists:
      • Kamari Clarke (University of Toronto), Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press, 2019)
      • Cati Coe (Rutgers University, Camden), The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (New York University Press, 2019)
  • 2019
  • Michael Lambek (University of Toronto), Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
  • Finalists:
    • Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes University), Coastal Sierra Leone: Materiality and the Unseen (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    • Mariane C. Ferme (UC Berkeley), MOut of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone (University of California Press, 2018)

2018

  • Jean Hunleth (Washington University in St. Louis), Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia (Rutgers University Press, 2017)
  • Finalists:
    • George Paul Meiu (Harvard University), Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
    • Kenda Mutongi (Williams College), Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

2017

  • Yolanda Covington-Ward (University of Pittsburgh), Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Duke University Press, 2016)

2016

  • James Ferguson (Stanford University), Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (Duke University Press, 2015)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • J. Lorand Matory (Duke University) Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
    • Richard Werbner (Manchester University), Divination’s Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said (Indiana University Press, 2015)

2015

  • Daniel Jordan Smith (Brown University), AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Cati Coe, The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
    • Pnina Werbner, The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana (Pluto Press, 2003)

2014

  • Jemima Pierre (University of California, Los Angeles), The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Honorable Mention: Wyatt MacGaffey (Haverford College), Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana (University of Virginia Press, 2013).

2013

  • Steven Feld (University of New Mexico), Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana (Duke University Press, 2012)
  • Jennie Burnet (University of Louisville), Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)

2012

  • Hans Lucht (University of Copenhagen), Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today (University of California Press, 2011)

2010

  • Trevor Marchand (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), The Masons of Djenné (Indiana University Press, 2009)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University), Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya (University of California Press, 2009)
    • Ivor L. Miller (Boston University), Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba (University of Mississippi Press, 2009)

2009

  • Ben W. Jones (University of East Anglia), Beyond the State in Rural Uganda (University of Edinburgh Press, 2009)

2008

  • Deborah James (London School of Economics and Political Science), Gaining Ground?: “Rights” and “Property” in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Sabine Jell-Bahlsen (Ogbuide Films), The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake (Africa World Press, 2008)
    • Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, and Mustafa Babiker (editors), African Anthropologies: History, Critique, and Practice (Zed Books, 2006)

Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award

  • 2022- Adéwálé Adénlé (Ohio State University) “Dialogue with the Spectacle and the Spirits: Re/Contextualizing Yorùbá Spiritual Objects in American Art Museums
    • Honorable Mention, Irene Routté (University of Michigan), ‘Will You Take Care? Bio-Space, Racial Assemblages and the US Your Refugee Resettlement Welfare System.
  • 2020 – Justin Haruyama (UC Davis), “Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Symbolic Power at a Chinese-Operated Mine in Zambia”
    • Honorable Mention, Aalyia Sadruddin, Yale University, “Preparing for Death in ‘Ordinary Times’: Everyday Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
    • Honorable Mention, Ben Eyre, University of Manchester, “‘Modern’ Cows and ‘Traditional’ Loans: From Moral Possibilities to Possible Moralities of Dairy Development in South West Tanzania”
  • 2019 – Brittany Birberick (UC Berkeley), “Dreaming Numbers”
    • Honorable Mention: Kathryn Mara (University of Wisconsin, Madison),”Jenoside, Génocide, Genocide: Socialization into Naming the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi”
  • 2018 – Laura Meek (UC Davis), “Fakes, Poisons, and Medicines: Pharmaceutical Capacities in the Context of Radical Uncertainty in Tanzania”
    • Honorable Mention: Michael Obiri-Yeboah (UC San Diego),“Domains and Directionality in Gua Vowel Harmony”
  • 2017 – Brian Smithson (Duke University), “A Voice from the Bush: The Orò Society at the Yorùbá Borderlands”
    • Honorable Mention: Joeva Rock (American University), “Dark Continent, Green Revolution: The Making of an African Green Revolution in Ghana”
  • 2016 – Eduardo Santana (University of California San Diego), “The Black Roots of Argentine Tango: Embodied Identities in the Dancing Diaspora”
    • Honorable Mention: Carrie McLachlin Leslie (University of Oklahoma), “African Women’s Resistance and the Reclamation of their Environment”
  • 2015 – Apostolos Andrikopoulos (University of Amsterdam), “The Process of Kinship in a Setting of Civic Inequality: West African Migrants Struggling Over Scarce Resources in Europe”
    • Honorable Mention: Dominic Granello (University of Oklahoma), “BRICS, the New Development Bank, and South Africa: A Look at Changes in the Global and Regional Development Structure, and South Africa’s Role as a Regional Power”
  • 2014 – Uwa Oduwa (Georgetown University), “Rethinking Study Abroad: Academic Study in Developing Nations and the Case for Nigeria”
  • 2013 – Metasebia E. Yoseph (Georgetown University), “A Culture of Coffee: Transmediating the Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony”
    • Honorable Mention: Yang Jiao (University of Florida, Gainesville), “The Rise of Chinese Transnational Elites in Africa”
  • 2012 – George Paul Meiu (University of Chicago), “Beach-Boy Elders and Young Big Men: Queering the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies”
    • Honorable Mention: Mohamed Abumaye (University of California, San Diego), “Silenced into Non-Existence: A Living History of Somali Orality”
  • 2011 – Erica Fontana (University of California, San Diego), “Online African Art: Representation, Circulation, and Access”
  • 2010 – David Platzer (Johns Hopkins University), “African Literature and Its Institutions”
    • Honorable Mention: Naomi Haynes (University of California, San Diego), “Pentecostalism and the Morality of Money: Religious and Economic Value on the Zambian Copperbelt”
  • 2009 – Lauren Adrover (Northwestern University), “Festive Currencies of Value: Culture, Commodification, and Performative Action in Ghana”
    • Honorable Mention: Scott Matter (McGill University), “Neopatrimonialism, Land Tenure Transformation, and Violence at Enoosupukia, Kenya”
  • 2008 – J.R. Osborn (University of California, San Diego), “Writing Culture with Arabic Letters: The School of Khartoum and Contemporary Calligraphic Art”

Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Student Essay Award

  • 2020 – Billan Omar (Macalester College), “Wadajir We Win: Finding First-Generation Somali-American Identity Through Language”
    • Honorable Mention: Isabel English (University of Oklahoma), “Impact of Climate Change and Gender Inequality on Migration in Africa”
  • 2019 – Jamie O’Leary (Princeton University), “Mangi Deeti Doorati: Marian Performativity in a Senegalese Daara”
    • Honorable Mention: Hannah Sheikh (Dartmouth College),“Liminalities of Somalinimo: CVE in the Diaspora Spaces of Boston”
  • 2018 – Andrea Kvietok (Macalester College), “Navigating ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Migrants’ Connections to Home and Lived Realities While Abroad”
  • 2017 – Franklyn Odhiambo (UC Berkeley), “Speaking in Transcendence: Postcolonial Feminism, Sojourner Truth and the Combahee River Collective”
    • Honorable Mention: Kaeli Green (UC San Diego), “Intervention and Reinvention: Maasai Identity and Social Change in Kenya and Tanzania”
  • 2016 –Nana Charlene Elfreda Adubea Toa-Kwapong (Macalester College), “Alienation,(Re)integration or Something in Between: Return Migration to Accra, Ghana and Cultural Liminality”
    • Honorable Mention: Jamie Franzese (University of Oklahoma), “Democratization and Women’s Issues: A Comparative Analysis of Tunisia and Egypt”
  • 2015 – Sara Yukimi Saltman (Macalester College), “The Grass that Grows on Top of Bodies: Women, Marriage and the Construction of Collective Narratives in Rural Rwanda”
    • Honorable Mention: Anna Yamamuro (University of California, San Diego), “Student Activism in South Africa: Apartheid-Era Challenges and Lasting Effects”
  • 2014 – Alexis Coopersmith (University of California, San Diego), “Pathways to Power: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Wangari Maathai, and the African Woman’s Pursuit of Political Power”
    • Honorable Mention: Sarah Rayzl Lansky (Macalester College), ” My Brother Before Me: The Role and Experience of Local Humanitarian Aid Workers In Eastern Cameroon”
  • 2013 – Rachel Mueller (Macalester College), “The Spirits are My Neighbors: Women and the Rab Cult in Dakar, Senegal”
    • Honorable Mention: Stephen Reynders (University of California, San Diego), “Ritual as Therapy: A Semiotic Theory of Modern and Pre-Modern Ritual Form”
  • 2012 – Divya Bhat (University of California, San Diego), “Survival Strategies as Islands of Security: Social Change and Development in the Congo”
    • Honorable Mention: Courtney Dehn-Gurbacki (McGill University), “The Mediation of Large-Scale Farmland Deals: A Tanzanian Case Study”
  • 2011 – Sean Brimmer (College of the Holy Cross), “Urban Africa Exposed: Inversion and the Restructuring of Kinship, Gender, and Style”
  • 2010 – Narisa Silver (University of California, San Diego), “Continuity and Change in the Ethiopian Jewish Community of Israel”
  • 2009 – Josephine Pang (University of California, San Diego), “A Gendered Critique of Social/Sexual Networks: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Uganda”
  • 2008 – Natalie Spritzer (University of California, San Diego), “Health Care for All in Ghana”
    • Honorable Mention: Ryan Hewey (Central Connecticut State University), “Negrotown: An Archaeology of African Agency from Colonial Connecticut”

African Scholars Travel Grant

  • 1999 – Babatunde Omoniyi (Thames Valley University), “Names and Naming in the Arsenal of Contemporary Yoruba Political Campaign Warfare”

Elliott P. Skinner Book Award

2021

  • Isabella Alexanda-Nathani (UCLA), Burning art Europe’s Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant’s Experience in Morrocco, Oxford University Press (2021)
  • Dan Hicks, (University of Oxford), The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Pluto Press (2020)

2020

  • Jatin Dua (University of Michigan), Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019)
  • Finalists:
    • Kamari Clarke (University of Toronto), Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press, 2019)
    • Cati Coe (Rutgers University, Camden), The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (New York University Press, 2019)

2019

  • Michael Lambek (University of Toronto), Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
  • Finalists:
    • Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes University), Coastal Sierra Leone: Materiality and the Unseen (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    • Mariane C. Ferme (UC Berkeley), MOut of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone (University of California Press, 2018)

2018

  • Jean Hunleth (Washington University in St. Louis), Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia (Rutgers University Press, 2017)
  • Finalists:
    • George Paul Meiu (Harvard University), Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
    • Kenda Mutongi (Williams College), Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

2017

  • Yolanda Covington-Ward (University of Pittsburgh), Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Duke University Press, 2016)

2016

  • James Ferguson (Stanford University), Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (Duke University Press, 2015)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • J. Lorand Matory (Duke University) Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
    • Richard Werbner (Manchester University), Divination’s Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said (Indiana University Press, 2015)

2015

  • Daniel Jordan Smith (Brown University), AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Cati Coe, The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
    • Pnina Werbner, The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana (Pluto Press, 2003)

2014

  • Jemima Pierre (University of California, Los Angeles), The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Honorable Mention: Wyatt MacGaffey (Haverford College), Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana (University of Virginia Press, 2013).

2013

  • Steven Feld (University of New Mexico), Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana (Duke University Press, 2012)
  • Jennie Burnet (University of Louisville), Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)

2012

  • Hans Lucht (University of Copenhagen), Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today (University of California Press, 2011)

2010

  • Trevor Marchand (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), The Masons of Djenné (Indiana University Press, 2009)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University), Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya (University of California Press, 2009)
    • Ivor L. Miller (Boston University), Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba (University of Mississippi Press, 2009)

2009

  • Ben W. Jones (University of East Anglia), Beyond the State in Rural Uganda (University of Edinburgh Press, 2009)

2008

  • Deborah James (London School of Economics and Political Science), Gaining Ground?: “Rights” and “Property” in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007)
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Sabine Jell-Bahlsen (Ogbuide Films), The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake (Africa World Press, 2008)
    • Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, and Mustafa Babiker (editors), African Anthropologies: History, Critique, and Practice (Zed Books, 2006)

Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award

  • 2022- Adéwálé Adénlé (Ohio State University) “Dialogue with the Spectacle and the Spirits: Re/Contextualizing Yorùbá Spiritual Objects in American Art Museums
    • Honorable Mention, Irene Routté (University of Michigan), ‘Will You Take Care? Bio-Space, Racial Assemblages and the US Your Refugee Resettlement Welfare System.
  • 2020 – Justin Haruyama (UC Davis), “Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Symbolic Power at a Chinese-Operated Mine in Zambia”
    • Honorable Mention, Aalyia Sadruddin, Yale University, “Preparing for Death in ‘Ordinary Times’: Everyday Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
    • Honorable Mention, Ben Eyre, University of Manchester, “‘Modern’ Cows and ‘Traditional’ Loans: From Moral Possibilities to Possible Moralities of Dairy Development in South West Tanzania”
  • 2019 – Brittany Birberick (UC Berkeley), “Dreaming Numbers”
    • Honorable Mention: Kathryn Mara (University of Wisconsin, Madison),”Jenoside, Génocide, Genocide: Socialization into Naming the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi”
  • 2018 – Laura Meek (UC Davis), “Fakes, Poisons, and Medicines: Pharmaceutical Capacities in the Context of Radical Uncertainty in Tanzania”
    • Honorable Mention: Michael Obiri-Yeboah (UC San Diego),“Domains and Directionality in Gua Vowel Harmony”
  • 2017 – Brian Smithson (Duke University), “A Voice from the Bush: The Orò Society at the Yorùbá Borderlands”
    • Honorable Mention: Joeva Rock (American University), “Dark Continent, Green Revolution: The Making of an African Green Revolution in Ghana”
  • 2016 – Eduardo Santana (University of California San Diego), “The Black Roots of Argentine Tango: Embodied Identities in the Dancing Diaspora”
    • Honorable Mention: Carrie McLachlin Leslie (University of Oklahoma), “African Women’s Resistance and the Reclamation of their Environment”
  • 2015 – Apostolos Andrikopoulos (University of Amsterdam), “The Process of Kinship in a Setting of Civic Inequality: West African Migrants Struggling Over Scarce Resources in Europe”
    • Honorable Mention: Dominic Granello (University of Oklahoma), “BRICS, the New Development Bank, and South Africa: A Look at Changes in the Global and Regional Development Structure, and South Africa’s Role as a Regional Power”
  • 2014 – Uwa Oduwa (Georgetown University), “Rethinking Study Abroad: Academic Study in Developing Nations and the Case for Nigeria”
  • 2013 – Metasebia E. Yoseph (Georgetown University), “A Culture of Coffee: Transmediating the Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony”
    • Honorable Mention: Yang Jiao (University of Florida, Gainesville), “The Rise of Chinese Transnational Elites in Africa”
  • 2012 – George Paul Meiu (University of Chicago), “Beach-Boy Elders and Young Big Men: Queering the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies”
    • Honorable Mention: Mohamed Abumaye (University of California, San Diego), “Silenced into Non-Existence: A Living History of Somali Orality”
  • 2011 – Erica Fontana (University of California, San Diego), “Online African Art: Representation, Circulation, and Access”
  • 2010 – David Platzer (Johns Hopkins University), “African Literature and Its Institutions”
    • Honorable Mention: Naomi Haynes (University of California, San Diego), “Pentecostalism and the Morality of Money: Religious and Economic Value on the Zambian Copperbelt”
  • 2009 – Lauren Adrover (Northwestern University), “Festive Currencies of Value: Culture, Commodification, and Performative Action in Ghana”
    • Honorable Mention: Scott Matter (McGill University), “Neopatrimonialism, Land Tenure Transformation, and Violence at Enoosupukia, Kenya”
  • 2008 – J.R. Osborn (University of California, San Diego), “Writing Culture with Arabic Letters: The School of Khartoum and Contemporary Calligraphic Art”

Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Student Essay Award

  • 2022- Matthew Wilkinson (Macalaster College), “Giving is our Habit: Social Exchange and Agency Among Refugees from the Congo Wars”
    • Honorable Mention, Andrew Ha (UC San Diego), “An Uncertain Path for the Nomads of the Sahel”
  • 2020 – Billan Omar (Macalester College), “Wadajir We Win: Finding First-Generation Somali-American Identity Through Language”
    • Honorable Mention: Isabel English (University of Oklahoma), “Impact of Climate Change and Gender Inequality on Migration in Africa”
  • 2019 – Jamie O’Leary (Princeton University), “Mangi Deeti Doorati: Marian Performativity in a Senegalese Daara”
    • Honorable Mention: Hannah Sheikh (Dartmouth College),“Liminalities of Somalinimo: CVE in the Diaspora Spaces of Boston”
  • 2018 – Andrea Kvietok (Macalester College), “Navigating ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Migrants’ Connections to Home and Lived Realities While Abroad”
  • 2017 – Franklyn Odhiambo (UC Berkeley), “Speaking in Transcendence: Postcolonial Feminism, Sojourner Truth and the Combahee River Collective”
    • Honorable Mention: Kaeli Green (UC San Diego), “Intervention and Reinvention: Maasai Identity and Social Change in Kenya and Tanzania”
  • 2016 –Nana Charlene Elfreda Adubea Toa-Kwapong (Macalester College), “Alienation,(Re)integration or Something in Between: Return Migration to Accra, Ghana and Cultural Liminality”
    • Honorable Mention: Jamie Franzese (University of Oklahoma), “Democratization and Women’s Issues: A Comparative Analysis of Tunisia and Egypt”
  • 2015 – Sara Yukimi Saltman (Macalester College), “The Grass that Grows on Top of Bodies: Women, Marriage and the Construction of Collective Narratives in Rural Rwanda”
    • Honorable Mention: Anna Yamamuro (University of California, San Diego), “Student Activism in South Africa: Apartheid-Era Challenges and Lasting Effects”
  • 2014 – Alexis Coopersmith (University of California, San Diego), “Pathways to Power: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Wangari Maathai, and the African Woman’s Pursuit of Political Power”
    • Honorable Mention: Sarah Rayzl Lansky (Macalester College), ” My Brother Before Me: The Role and Experience of Local Humanitarian Aid Workers In Eastern Cameroon”
  • 2013 – Rachel Mueller (Macalester College), “The Spirits are My Neighbors: Women and the Rab Cult in Dakar, Senegal”
    • Honorable Mention: Stephen Reynders (University of California, San Diego), “Ritual as Therapy: A Semiotic Theory of Modern and Pre-Modern Ritual Form”
  • 2012 – Divya Bhat (University of California, San Diego), “Survival Strategies as Islands of Security: Social Change and Development in the Congo”
    • Honorable Mention: Courtney Dehn-Gurbacki (McGill University), “The Mediation of Large-Scale Farmland Deals: A Tanzanian Case Study”
  • 2011 – Sean Brimmer (College of the Holy Cross), “Urban Africa Exposed: Inversion and the Restructuring of Kinship, Gender, and Style”
  • 2010 – Narisa Silver (University of California, San Diego), “Continuity and Change in the Ethiopian Jewish Community of Israel”
  • 2009 – Josephine Pang (University of California, San Diego), “A Gendered Critique of Social/Sexual Networks: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Uganda”
  • 2008 – Natalie Spritzer (University of California, San Diego), “Health Care for All in Ghana”
    • Honorable Mention: Ryan Hewey (Central Connecticut State University), “Negrotown: An Archaeology of African Agency from Colonial Connecticut”