Ana Lucia Araujo

Florence Gould Foundation Fellow

Spring 2025-2026

Ana Lucia Araujo is a professor of history at the historically Black Howard University in Washington, DC. Araujo holds a PhD in History from Université Laval (Canada) and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), and a PhD in Art History from Université Laval (Canada). She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, and is particularly interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. Araujo publishes in English, French, and Portuguese, and her work has been translated in Dutch and German. She is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, including Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015); Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, second edition), translated in French as Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) (Seuil, 2025); The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024); and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024).  Her work has been recently supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Research Institute, the American Philosophical Society, and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. She is also a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project. At the Clark, she will be working on the book project Global Slavery: A Visual History.