plovejoy@yorku.ca

Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Lovejoy is Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO “Slave Route” Project (1996-2012) and continues as General Editor of The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora (Africa World Press). He was co-editor of the journal, African Economic History for 37 years and has published more than forty books, including Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (1775-1850) (2016), Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa (2019), and most recently co-edited with Ali Moussa Iye and Nelly Schmidt, Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective (2019), co-edited with Dale Tomich, The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond (2021), and co-edited with Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy and Erika Melek Delgado, Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives (2022). He has received numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Research keywords: Social justice; economic history; slavery; migration; ethnicity