Ana Lucia Araujo was named a Getty Research Institute Scholar for the academic year 2022-23. She will be in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, from January 10 to June 30, 2023, working on her book The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. To know more, check the Getty Research Institute announcement.

Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor in the Department of History, Howard University) is a member of the School of Historical Studies of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey in the Spring/Summer 2022. IAS was established in 1930 with twenty-three Members in the School of Mathematics with Albert Einstein as one of its first Professors and later with historians and art historians such as Erwin Panofsky. Today, IAS’s community of scholars expanded and includes more than 8,000 historians, mathematicians, natural scientists, and social scientists. During her term at IAS, Professor Araujo will be working on her…