Rebecca Jarvis Scott (born July 18, 1950) is an American historian who is a Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at theUniversity of Michigan.

Scott was born on July 18, 1950, inAthens, Georgia to parents Andrew and Anne Scott.^[1] She graduated fromRadcliffe College with an A.B., from theLondon School of Economics with an M.Phil. in economic history and fromPrinceton University with a Ph.D.^[2]

After earning aMacArthur Fellowship in 1990,^[2] Scott joined the faculty at theUniversity of Michigan (UMich) where she founded the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.^[3] During this time, she co-wroteBeyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies with Frederick Cooper andThomas C. Holt. The book explored the journey from slavery to freedom and how it impacted society.^[4] In 2002, Scott was promoted to the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at UMich^[3] and a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[5]

In 2008, Scott's bookDegrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on slavery or abolition.^[6] A few years later, she was appointed the University of Michigan's Henry Russel Lecturer, the university's highest honor for its senior faculty.^[7]

• Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation, Authors Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard, Harvard University Press, 2012,ISBN 978-0-6740-4774-7
• Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, Harvard University Press, 2005,ISBN 978-0-674-01932-4
• Societies after Slavery, Editors Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, Aims Mcguinness, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004,ISBN 978-0-8229-5848-2
• Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000,ISBN 978-0-8229-5735-5
• Beyond Slavery, Authors Frederick Cooper, Thomas Cleveland Holt, Rebecca Jarvis Scott, UNC Press, 2000,ISBN 978-0-8078-4854-8
• "Exploring the Meaning of Freedom",The Abolition of slavery and the aftermath of emancipation in Brazil, Editor Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Duke University Press, 1988,ISBN 978-0-8223-0888-1
• "Beyond Comparison and Case Study",Cuban studies since the revolution, Editor Damián J. Fernández, University Press of Florida, 1992,ISBN 978-0-8130-1124-0

• Rebecca J. Scott publications indexed byGoogle Scholar

• 1950 births
• Living people
• University of Michigan faculty
• University of Michigan Law School faculty
• Radcliffe College alumni
• Alumni of the London School of Economics
• Princeton University alumni
• MacArthur Fellows
• 21st-century American historians
• American women historians
• American women legal scholars
• American legal scholars
• 21st-century American women

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles with hCards