Past Member
Ana Lucia Araujo
Funding provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Atlantic Slavery, Memory, Material Culture
Website
From
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Ana Lucia Araujo will be working on her book "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism." The book explores how material culture, especially objects of prestige, shaped the exchanges between Africans and Europeans in the era of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Spring
Degrees
Université Laval (Canada)/EHESS (France)
Ph.D.
2007
Université Laval
Ph.D.
2004
Honors
2021–present
Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Advisory Board, US
2021-present
Advisory Board, Memory Studies Association
2021-22
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, US
2019–25
Executive Board, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, US
2019-present
Board of Editors, The American Historical Review, US
2018-present
Editorial Board, journal Slavery and Abolition, UK
2022
Ervin Frederick Kalb Lecture in History, Rice University, Houston, TX, US
2021
Thomas D. Clark Lectureship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, US
2021
Ida Wise East Memorial Lecture in the Humanities, University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA, US
2019
Invited Professor, Université de Paris VIII, Paris, France
2017
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project
2017
Service Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, US
2013
Faculty Senate Award for Emerging Scholars, Howard University, US
Appointments
Howard University
Professor of History