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Author: Ana Lucia Araujo

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Ana Lucia Araujo

Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian and Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Project Routes of Enslaved Peoples (former Slave Route Project) since 2017. Her recent awards include a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey), where she was in residence in the Spring 2022, and a Senior Scholar Grant from the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, California) where she is currently in residence. She is a member of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Scholarly Advisory Board (United States) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. She also serves on the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review the flagship journal of the American Historical Association, the largest association of historians in the United States, the editorial board of the British journal Slavery and Abolition, and the Editorial Review Board of the African Studies Review, the flagship journal of the African Studies Association in the United States. She is the author or editor of 13 books. Her three recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (2017), Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (2020), and Museums and Atlantic Slavery (2021).

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