Ana Lucia Araujo
Brazilian-born historian of the memory of slavery; professor at Howard University.
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- Ana Lucia Araujo is a historian and art historian, born and raised in Brazil, who is a professor of history at Howard University.
- Her work is on the public memory, visual culture and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.
- She joined Howard as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2014.
Key facts
- Born
- 7 May 1971, Brazil1
- Education
- BFA, UFRGS (1995); MA in history, PUCRS (1998); PhD in art history, Université Laval (2004); PhD in history, Laval, and doctorate in social anthropology, EHESS (2007)1
- Books
- Public Memory of Slavery (2010); Shadows of the Slave Past (2014); Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade (2017); Slavery in the Age of Memory (2020); Museums and Atlantic Slavery (2021)1
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2025); Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2021)1
- Also
- Member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, from 2017 to 20261
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