Christina Mobley joins the University of Virginia History Department as an Assistant Professor

Christina Mobley accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Virginia. She earned her PhD in History from Duke in the spring of 2015. She specializes in the cultural history of slavery in Africa and the African diaspora. She is particularly interested in West Central African cultural practices in the Atlantic world in the early modern period. Her dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti," investigates the politics of interior slave trading on the Loango Coast in the late-eighteenth century and then explore how enslaved Central Africans used cultural practices as survival tools.