Rebecca Jarvis Scott (born July 18, 1950) is an American historian, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Early life and education

Scott was born on July 18, 1950, in

Athens, Georgia Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the sta ...

to parents Andrew and Anne Scott. She graduated from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

with an A.B., from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

with an M.Phil. in economic history and from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

with a Ph.D.

Career

After earning a

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to ...

in 1990, Scott joined the faculty at the

(UMich) where she founded the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. During this time, she co-wrote ''Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies'' with Frederick Cooper and

Thomas C. Holt Thomas Cleveland Holt (born November 30, 1942) is an American historian, who is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He has produced a number of works on the people and de ...

. The book explored the journey from slavery to freedom and how it impacted society. In 2002, Scott was promoted to the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at UMich and a member of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

. In 2008, Scott's book ''Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery'' received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on slavery or abolition. A few years later, she was appointed the University of Michigan's Henry Russel Lecturer, the university's highest honor for its senior faculty.

Works

''Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation''
Authors Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard, Harvard University Press, 2012,
''Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery''
Harvard University Press, 2005,
''Societies after Slavery''
Editors Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, Aims Mcguinness, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004,
''Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor''
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000,
''Beyond Slavery''
Authors Frederick Cooper, Thomas Cleveland Holt, Rebecca Jarvis Scott, UNC Press, 2000,
"Exploring the Meaning of Freedom"
''The Abolition of slavery and the aftermath of emancipation in Brazil'', Editor Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Duke University Press, 1988,
"Beyond Comparison and Case Study"
''Cuban studies since the revolution'', Editor Damián J. Fernández, University Press of Florida, 1992,

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