Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
CAAAS Faculty Affiliates
Professor聽Lovejoy聽received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His first book,聽, is a biography of an enslaved African at the root of an African-Cuban religion, commonly known as Santer铆a. It won the Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano best book prize for Yoruba Studies. He is co-editor of the volume聽聽(2020) and聽聽(2022). Professor Lovejoy is director of the聽Digital Slavery Research Laboratory, which has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He also sits on the board of directors for the Black American West Museum & Heritage Centre in Five Points, Denver.
