Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Mr. Paul E. Lovejoy

Inviting institution:	Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Stay:	16. Dezember 2015
Email:	plovejoy@yorkou.ca
Home university:	York University (Kanada)
Personal information:	as part of the Public Lecture Series "Future Africa and Beyond" Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, 1780-1850 Paul E. Lovejoy is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and a member of the UNESCO 'Slave Route' Project. Lovejoy's recent publications include Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2010) and Slavery, Islam and Diaspora (2009). He is the editor of the Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora for Africa World Press. He has received several awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling in 2007, the President's Research Award of Merit from York University in 2009 and the Distinguished Africanist Award from the University of Texas, Austin in 2010. (Source: http://www.cambridge.org/ar/academic/subjects/history/african-history/transformations-slavery-history-slavery-africa-3rd-edition#bookPeople)