Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Lovejoy is Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO \u201cSlave Route\u201d Project (1996-2012) and continues as General Editor of The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora (Africa World Press). He was co-editor of the journal, African Economic History for 37 years and has published more than forty books, including Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (1775-1850) (2016), Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa (2019), and most recently co-edited with Ali Moussa Iye and Nelly Schmidt, Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective (2019), co-edited with Dale Tomich, The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond (2021), and co-edited with Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy and Erika Melek Delgado, Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives (2022). He has received numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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