Ana Lucia Araujo is an American social and cultural historian and art historian writing transnational and comparative history. Currently, she is a Full Professor of History at Howard University. Araujo’s work explores the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and their present-day legacies. Her research also examines the memory, heritage, and visual culture of slavery. An author and editor of over fifteen books, her recent books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury, 2020), Museums and Atlantic Slavery (part of the Museums in Focus series) published by Routledge in April 2021 and Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (2017). She also has two forthcoming books: The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.