Paul E. Lovejoy

Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published 40 books and 140 articles and papers, including ‘The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning’ (2013), co-edited with Benjamin Bowser, and ‘Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions’ (2016). He is Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas, and was Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-15).  He is General Editor of the Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, Africa World Press and the journal, ‘African Economic History’.