Author: Ana Lucia Araujo

Ana Lucia Araujo’s book Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (Éditions du Seuil, 2025) received an honorable mention in the category research at the 22nd edition of the Fetkann! Maryse Condé literary prize, organized by the CIFORDOM association (Information, Training, Research and Development Center for people from Overseas Territories) in Paris, France. This year, the prize focused on the theme “Memory of the Global South / Memory of Humanity.” The Fetkann! Maryse Condé prize recognizes works that celebrate both memory and human dignity.

Ana Lucia Araujo will be honored with the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator award by the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) for work on the history of slavery and its enduring legacies, including the demands for reparations. The award will be presented on Saturday, November 8, 2025, during the IFPE conference on the theme “Truth,” to be held in Washington, DC. More details on IFPE and the conference can be found here.

Ana Lucia Araujo’s Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery won one of our two $10,000 finalists prizes of the Museum of American History Stone Book Award.  An Atlantic history of slavery the book traces the history of slavery not just in the United States of America, but in the Americas and Brazil in particular. It foregrounds the lived experience of enslaved people and and in doing so illuminates how the African practices and traditions survived and persisted in the Americas among communities of enslaved people.

Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor at Howard University) and Abigail Lapin Dardashti (Assistant Professor at University of California Irvine) are convening the Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Annual Colloquium The South-South Networks of African Diasporic Landscape at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University Research Institutein Washington DC, on October 22-23. Speakers include Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Howard University, Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University, Cécile Fromont, Harvard University, Alice Heerin, California State University at Stanislaus, Paula Kupfer, University of Pittsburgh, Fernando Lara, University of Pennsylvania, Jacques Aymeric Nsangou, Havard University Center Villa I Tatti and Universität Zürich, Adedoyin Teriba, Cornell University, and Miguel Valerio, University of Maryland. More information here.

Ana Lucia Araujo, historian and Professor at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC, was awarded the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. As announced by the foundation: “The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 15 their appointment of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the Class of 2025 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under ‘the freest possible conditions.'”  

Ana Lucia Araujo’s book Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury in 2017, 2023)  was translated in French and published as Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) on April 11, 2025. The book is published by Éditions du Seuilas as part of the series L’Univers historique, and can be ordered online or in any bookstores in France.

Ana Lucia Araujo was awarded a Florence Gould Foundation Fellowship to be in residence at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts from February to June 2026.

Ana Lucia Araujo was awarded the Heinz-Heinen-Fellowship and will be a Senior Fellow in resident at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Universität Bonn
Bonn, Germany in May and June 2025 to work on her project Global Slavery: A Visual History.

Ana Lucia Araujo, historian and Professor of History at Howard University was awarded a $40,000 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship to work on her new book project The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

As a research fellow at the Wereld Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, this Fall 2023, Araujo is co-convening the conference Now You See Me: Black Women’s Defying Worlds During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Indentured Servitude  to be held on December 5 and 6 both at the Wereld Museum and Framer Framed. The conference will gather a dozen of invited speakers from the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

The journal of the National Council of Public History, The Public Historian, just published a positive review of Ana Lucia Araujo’s book Museums and Atlantic Slavery. The review is open access and available here.

Ana Lucia Araujo is among 35 Distinguished Immigrants honored by Carnegie Corporation of New York for Their Vital and Inspiring Contributions to Our Democracy. The philanthropic foundation established by Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie and led now by Irish immigrant Dame Louise Richardson celebrates the crucial role of naturalized citizens in making America a land of opportunity for all. The 2023 honorees, the 18th class in the program, will be recognized with a full-page public service announcement in the New York Times on the Fourth of July, as well as through tributes on social media.

Know more about the full list of honored immigrants here.