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- Associate Professor
- AFRICAN DIASPORA / DIGITAL HISTORY
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Professor Lovejoy focuses on the political, economic, and cultural history of Africa and the African diaspora.
Henry Lovejoy is director of the Digital Slavery Research Lab. His teaching integrates large-scale statistical analysis, GIS mapping, biography, and music to explore slavery, abolition, and migration. His first biography, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba, won the Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano Foundation prize for Yoruba Studies and was a finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau prize. He co-edited Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 and Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives. His research has appeared in Past & Present, Journal of African History, Slavery & Abolition, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Canadian Journal of African Studies,among others. He directs open-source digital resources including, Ìýand , which have been supported by federal granting agencies and academic institutions. He also serves on the board of directors for the international consortium, , which develops and sustains over twenty digital humanities projects for African Studies.
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