Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

Visiting Scholar
 

Rebecca Prichard
Modern Day Slavery and Trafficking Fellow and Lecturer
Lecturer in Theater Studies, Essex University
Research Interest: Carnevale, a play mixing slavery in 18th Century Venice and modern trafficking
Teaching: Representations of global human trafficking and enslavement (Spring 2015)

Visiting Fellows

Vitor Izecksohn
Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Research Topic: Comparative Historical analysis of the impact of the American Civil War (1861-75) and the Paraguayan War (1864-70)

Ashutosh Kumar
Assistant Professor, Delhi University
Research Topic: The migration of indentured workers from India during the 19th Century

Yuko Miki
Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Research Topic: Brazilian Atlantic: Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Abolition

Christine Whyte
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bayreuth University
Research Topic: Anti-slavery, child labour and the family home in 19th Century Sierra Leone.

Elizabeth Wright
Associate Professor, University of Georgia
Research Topic: African writer and educator Juan Latino in Spain

Post-Doctoral Associates

Oscar de la Torre (Fall 2014)
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina- Charlotte
Research: Slaves and maroons use of the eco-social characteristics of Amazonia to build a political identity in the early twentieth century

Michael LeMahieu (Spring 2015)
Associate Professor, Clemson University
Research: Civil War, Civil Rights: Genres of Memory in American Literature after 1954