Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy
Biography of Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy
Carolyn A. Brown, Associate Professor of History, Senior Editor of International Labor and Working Class History, and former Director of African Studies at Rutgers University, is a labor historian and specialist on slavery and colonialism. Her study of coal miners and rural protest in southeastern Nigeria has explored the struggles to confront the legacies of slavery in Nigerian society and the ways in which popular culture interprets history.
Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University. His research focuses on the life histories of enslaved Africans as a reflection of the social history of Africa and the African diaspora during the era of trans-Atlantic slavery.
