Ana Lucia Araujo

Ana Lucia Araujo is a historian and Professor of History at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC in the United States. She was trained in Brazil, France, and Canada, and holds a PhD in History and Social and Historical Anthropology (2007), and a PhD in Art History (2004). 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 the author or editor of sixteen books, including Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, second edition), The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024). In the United States, her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, CA), and the American Philosophical Society. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project (former Slave Route Project).