João Reis

João José Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil, is a historian of Brazil. His main expertise is nineteenth-century slavery, namely slave resistance, African biographies, the slave trade. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Brandeis, Princeton, Texas (Austin), and Harvard; and a research fellow at the London College, National Humanities Center, Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been been for many years a member of the International Editorial board of the Journal of American History, and is a lifetime Honorary Foreign member of the American Historical Review. He has published the following books in English (also available in Portuguese): Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (North Carolina University Press, 2003), winner of the Brazilian Book Prize Jabuti, 1992, and the Haring Prize of the AHA, 1995; Divining Slavery and Freedom: The Story of Domingos Sodré, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2015); and co-author with F. Gomes and M. Carvalho of The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic (Oxford University Press, 2020), Brazilian edition won the Casa de las Americas Book Prize in 2012. His latest book is Ganhadores: a greve negra de 1857 na Bahia (Companhia das Letras 2019), finalist of the Jabuti Prize.