Historian Henry Lovejoy wins $60,000 NEH fellowship
NEH funding also was awarded for two other humanities projects at ºÚÁϳԹÏ
ºÚÁϳԹÏÌýDepartment of History Associate ProfessorÌýHenry Lovejoy has won a $60,000 fellowship from theÌý to allow him to research and write a book about involuntary African indentured labor between 1800 and 1914.
Lovejoy’s research focuses on the political, economic and cultural history of Africa and the African Diaspora. He also has special expertise in digital humanities and is director of theÌýDigital Slavery Research Lab, which focuses on developing, linking and archiving open-source data and multi-media related to the global phenomen