Henry Lovejoy

Professor Lovejoy focuses on the political, economic, and cultural history of Africa and the African diaspora.

Henry Lovejoy is director of the Digital Slavery Research Lab. His teaching integrates large-scale statistical analysis, GIS mapping, biography, and music to explore slavery, abolition, and migration. His first biography, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba, won the Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano Foundation prize for Yoruba Studies and was a finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau prize. He co-edited Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 and Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives. His research has appeared in Past & Present, Journal of African History, Slavery & Abolition, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Canadian Journal of African Studies,among others. He directs open-source digital resources including, LiberatedAfricans.org and SlaveryImages.org, which have been supported by federal granting agencies and academic institutions. He also serves on the board of directors for the international consortium, WalkWithWeb.org, which develops and sustains over twenty digital humanities projects for African Studies.