James H. Sweet is Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests range widely across the history of Africa and the African diaspora.
He is the author of two prize-winning books, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the Afriacn-Portuguese World 1441-1770 which was awarded the 2004 Wesley-Logan Prize by the American Historical Association and was a finalist for the 2004 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the 2011 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association.
His latest book, Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, will be published by Oxford University Press.