Presenters

Sawyer Seminar presenters

Alice Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. 

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History in the Department of History at Harvard University. 

Adam Bledsoe is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota.

Simone Bohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University. 

Keynote Speaker

Christopher Brown is a Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. 

Ananya Chakravarti is associate professor of history at Georgetown University.

Indrani Chatterjee is the Nau Distinguished Professor of Democracy and South Asian History at the University of Virginia. 

Bradley Craig is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, where he teaches courses on Black Atlantic history. 

Professor and Award-Winning Author and Illlustrator

Marcelo D’ Salete is a professor in the School of Application at the Faculdade de Educação in the University of São Paulo (FEUSP) and an award-winning Brazilian author and illustrator of comics and graphic novels.

David Stefan Doddington is Senior Lecturer in North American History, and Programme Convenor for the History Department, at Cardiff University, UK. 

Kate Ekama is a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP), Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. 

Associate Professor

Itza Amanda Varela Huerta is associate professor and researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico Xochimilco, in the Department of Education.

Nicholas Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. 

Kris Manjapra is the Sterns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies at Northeastern University. 

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a professor of heritage and digital humanities at the University of New England, Australia. 

Elisabeth McMahon is an associate professor of African history at Tulane University. 

Isadora Moura Mota is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. 

Daniel Nemser is Associate Professor of Spanish in Romance Languages & Literatures at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. 

Sue Peabody is Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University, and author of numerous books and articles on slavery, race and the law in France and its colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

Keynote Speaker

Eve Troutt Powell is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History in the Department of History at University of Pennsylvania.

Ciraj Rassool is Senior Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), where he also directs the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies. 

Krish Seetah is an environmental and historical archeologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.

Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. 

Professor

Sudipta Sen is professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California, Davis.

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Professor

Ahmad Sikainga is Professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University.

Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship in 2022. 

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. 

Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is affiliated in the departments of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Comparative History of Ideas. 

Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. 

Jamaal Wright is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Florida. 

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This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.