Sweet’s teaching interests center on Africans and their descendants in the broader world. He teaches courses on comparative slavery, race and nation in the Atlantic world, comparative world history, the history of Brazil, and the history of South Africa. Sweet is an award-winning undergraduate history teacher; in 2017, the senior class voted him to be their commencement speaker. 























Doctoral students Sweet has worked with are listed in alphabetical order below.















Current Students 





Kwaku Mintah Danquah
UW-Madison History Department
Fields of Interest: Africa and the African diaspora

John Balz
UW-Madison History Department
Fields of Interest: Atlantic world and linguistcs








Past students:





Sean Bloch, Business Intelligence Analyst, ASRC Federal 

Celia Crifasi, Assistant Director of Office of Major Fellowships, Clemson University

Hermann von Hesse, Assistant Professor of African Art History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Philip Janzen, Assistant Professor of History, University of Florida-Gainesville

Colleen Vasconcellos, Professor of History, University of West Georgia 

Jessica Krug










Past Students Sweet has Worked Closely With:





Kathleen Alfin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Ezra Allen, University of Liberia, West Africa
Ikuko Asaka, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Robyn Autry, Wesleyan University
Simon Balto, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Natalie Belisle, University of Southern California
Jacob Blanc, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
David Bresnahan, University of Utah
John A. Coakley, Connecticut College
Marcos Colón, Arizona State University
Bennett E. Cross, Economic Analyst
Jerome Dotson, University of Arizona
Nicole A. Eggers,  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Lacy S. Ferrell, Central Washington University
Mark Allan Goldberg, University of Houston
Paul Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sarah F. Hardin, Saint Anselm College
Marc Hertzman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ousman Kobo, Ohio State University
Christopher Kirchgasler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erika Robb Larkins, San Diego State University
Francisco Xavier Luca, Florida International University
Francis Lukhele, University of Swaziland, Southern Africa
Daniel Magaziner, Yale University
Upenyu Majee, Michigan State University
Adam Malka, University of Oklahoma
John C. Marquez, University of California-Riverside
John Garrison Marks, American Association for State and Local History 
Christina Mobley, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Solsirée del Moral, Amherst College
Rachael Pasierowska, Lincoln University of Missouri
Alberto Ortiz, University of Texas-Arlington
Patrick Otim, Bates College
Stephen Pierce, Indiana Wesleyan University
Ryan Quintana, Wellesley College
Matthew Rarey, Oberlin College
Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Dartmouth College
Antoinette Pressley Sanon, Eastern Michigan University
Stephen C. Volz, Kenyon College
Temirlan Yergeshbay, Independent scholar