Jerome Handler

Senior Scholar, Virginia Humanities

  • BA, UCLA, 1956 (Anthro)
  • MA, UCLA, 1959 (Anthro)
  • PhD, Brandeis, 1965 (Anthro)

Specialties

Early African Diaspora in the New World and slavery; Atlantic slave trade; Caribbean and West African societies and cultures; peasant and plantation communities in the Caribbean; historical anthropology and the use of documentary sources; historical archaeology of the Africa Diaspora; West Indian historical bibliography