Direction

Direction

Lead Principal Investigator, LPI

Paul E. Lovejoy FRSC

Distinguished Research Professor

A leading proponent of revisionist interpretations of the history of the African diaspora, Lovejoy is the founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the African Diaspora and editor of the Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora with Africa World Press. His theoretical approach places Africa at the center of intellectual discourse on the African diaspora. His contributions to UNESCO include service on the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage (1996-2012), his continued involvement as co-editor of the on-line series of essays by committee members, and a co-editor of the UNESCO General History of Africa, vol. 10, on Global Africa.

Principal Investigators, PIs

Myriam Cottias

CNRS, EHESS, France

Myriam Cottias is a historian of slavery, and a professor with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the CRPLC, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane. She heads the International Research Centre on Slavery, Actors, Systems and Representations (CIRESC) associated with the CNRS. She was also scientific coordinator of the European FP7 project Slave Trade, Slave Abolitions and their Legacies in European Histories and Identities (EURESCL). She is President of the Comité National pour l’Histoire et la Mémoire de l’Esclavage. Her published works include: D’une abolition, l’autre. Anthologie raisonnée de textes sur la seconde abolition de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises (Agone Editeur, 1999); De la nécessité d’adopter l’esclavage en France: un texte anonyme de 1797 and La question noire. Histoire d’une construction coloniale, both with Arlette Farge (Paris: Bayard, 2007). Her most recent book is Relire Mayotte Capécia, une femme des Antilles dans l’espace colonial Français, with Madeleine Dobie (Armand Colin, 2012).

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec

Associate Professor, History Department, Université de Sherbrooke

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec is an associate professor of history at the Université de Sherbrooke. He teaches American and Haitian history, as well as the history of Blacks in the Americas.
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec est professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke, spécialiste de l’histoire des États-Unis, d’Haïti et des Amériques noires, il travaille actuellement sur le développement de la plateforme marronnage.info, sur l'historiographie des résistances à l'esclavage en France et sur un nouveau projet de recherche CRSH sur l'histoire méconnue des résistances à l'esclavage à la Nouvelle-Orléans (1811-1836). Ce projet porte en particulier sur les formes culturelles de résistance à l'esclavage, par la danse et la musique notamment. Il s'intéresse aussi à l'histoire d'une pâtisserie, la tête-de-nègre. Le marronnage dans le monde atlantique: sources et trajectoires de vie, Freedom Narratives.

Sean Kelley

Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Essex, UK

Sean M. Kelley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and specializes in the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. He is the author of Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821-1865 (2010) and The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina (2016). He is a founding member of the Freedom Narratives Project.