Jakob Myers is a second-year PhD student in IU's Department of History. Their research focuses on histories of slavery and unfreedom in 19th century Zanzibar within an interoceanic context, with particular regard to commercial networks, marronage, and ideological currents among American visitors to the Indian Ocean. Jakob holds a BA in History, Arabic, and Geographic Information Science from Michigan State University.

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This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.