Learn more about members of the interdisciplinary network on Slavery, Bondage, and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World Network.
Gwyn Campbell
Professor and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University
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- Regions: Indian Ocean World; Madagascar
- Time Periods: 0-2000 CE
- Themes: Histories of the Indian Ocean World; Africa; Madagascar; Economic History; Environmental History; Slavery
Philip Gooding
Postdoctoral Researcher, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University
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- Regions: East Africa
- Time Periods: 1700-1900 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Bondage; the Environment; Climate History
Hideaki Suzuki
Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
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- Regions: East Africa; the Indian Ocean, Arabia; the Persian Gulf
- Time Periods: 1000-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Slave Trade; Environment
Daren Ray
Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
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- Regions: East Africa; Oman; Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 0-1900 CE
- Themes: Kinship; Law; Islam; Slavery
Joan Razafimaharo
Architect, Trano Architecture
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- Regions: Madagascar; Comoros, Les Mascareignes; Mozambique
- Time Periods: 1800 CE-Present
- Themes: Architecture; Urban Planning; Sustainability; Women’s Empowerment; Environment
Anna Arabindan Kesson
Associate Professor, Princeton University
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- Regions: South Asia; Caribbean, South and East Africa; Atlantic/Indian/Pacific Ocean interactions
- Time Periods: 1700-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Indentured Labour; Visual Culture; Medicine; Trade Networks
Jakob Burnham
PhD Candidate, Georgetown University
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- Regions: South Asia; French Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 1600-1800 CE
- Themes: Urban History; Gender and Sexuality; Slavery and Labour
Anas S.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kerala , India
- Regions: South Asia; Malabar
- Time Periods: Medieval
- Themes: Environment
Saada Wahab
Lecturer, The State University of Zanzibar
- Regions: East Africa
- Time Periods: 1800-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Slave Trade
Akshay Sarathi
Lecturer, Texas A&M University
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- Regions: Swahili Coast; Western Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: Pre-modern; Ancient; Medieval
- Themes: Subsistence; Trade and Exchange; Globalization
James C. Armstrong
Independent Scholar
- Regions: Southwestern Indian Ocean; Madagascar; Cape of Good Hope
- Time Periods: 1600-1800 CE
- Themes: Slave Trade; Cape Exiles
Kelsey McFaul
Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz
- Regions: Western Indian Ocean; East Africa; Horn of Africa
- Time Periods: 1900 CE-Present
- Themes: Literature; the Novel; Histories of Enslavement and Migration; Environment and Climate; Archipelagic Thinking; Memory; Comparative Oceanic Thinking
Yadhav Deerpaul
PhD Student, Iowa State University
- Regions: Islands of Indian Ocean World
- Time Periods: 1800 CE-Present
- Themes: Environmental and Technological History
Christine Whyte
Lecturer, University of Glasgow
- Regions: Seychelles; Kenya; South Africa; Mauritius
- Time Periods: 1800-1900 CE
- Themes: Children and Childhood; Abolition of Slavery
Beatrice Nicolini
Full Professor, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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- Regions: Indian Ocean; East Africa; Arabian Peninsula
- Time Periods: 1800-2000 CE
- Themes: History; Slave Trade; Islam; British Colonial History
Junaid ur Rehman
PhD Student, Columbia University
- Regions: Indian Ocean; Western Ghats; Deccan; South Asia
- Time Periods: Pre-modern; Modern; Colonial
- Themes: Islam; Slavery; Coffee Plantations; Environmental History; History of Science
Guangtian Ha
Assistant Professor of Religion, Haverford College
- Regions: China; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Middle East; Africa
- Time Periods: Medieval to Early Modern
- Themes: Slavery and Seafaring across the Indian Ocean
Neil van der Linden
Independent Researcher and Musicologist
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- Regions: Indian Ocean Coasts
- Time Periods: 0-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Music Rituals
Pedro Machado
Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington
Website
- Regions: East and Southeast Africa; Island Africa; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Australia
- Time Periods: 1700-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Forms of Unfreedom; Object Histories; Commodities; Commercial Networks; Economic Life; Marine Environmental Histories
James Francis Warren
Emeritus Professor, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
- Regions: Southeast Asia; Africa
- Time Periods: 1600-2000 CE
- Themes: Forms of Slavery; Slave Raiding; the Lives of Slaves; Historiography of Slavery in Comparative Global Context; Cultural Ecology of Slavery; Slavery and Natural Disasters
Jessica Hanser
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
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- Regions: Indian Ocean; China; Britain; India; Africa; Caribbean
- Time Periods: Medieval; Early Modern; Eighteenth Century
- Themes: British Empire; Imperialism; Slavery; Capitalism
Jacky Kosgei
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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- Regions: East African Coast; Kenyan Coast
- Time Periods: 16th Century; 1700-1800 CE; Present
- Themes: Oral History; Swahili Oral Poetry; Indigenous Knowledge; Oral Testimonies of Seafarers; Marine Conservation
Fazal Muhammed
MPhil Student, SSUS Kalady
- Regions: Indian Ocean and the Periphery
- Time Periods: 1250-1750 CE
- Themes: Trade; Slavery
Anwesha Das
Graduate Student, Emory University
- Regions: South Asia
- Time Periods: 1000-1600 CE
- Themes: Mobility across the Medieval Indian Ocean; Environmental Histories of Port Cities
Deepa Padmanaban
Freelance Journalist
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- Regions: India; Asia; Asia Pacific
- Time Periods: Contemporary
- Themes: Oceans; Environment; Slavery; Climate Change
Lindsay Bremner
Director of Research, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
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- Regions: Bay of Bengal
- Time Periods: Contemporary
- Themes: Environment; Urbanism; Monsoons
Dr. Raka Banerjee
Junior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
- Regions: Andaman Island; Bay of Bengal
- Time Periods: 1900 CE-Present
- Themes: Gender; Island Settlement; Island Studies; Bengal Partition (1947)
Magdalena Moorthy Kloss
Researcher, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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- Regions: Yemen; Arabian Peninsula; Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: Medieval; 1800 CE-Present
- Themes: Slavery; Post-slavery; Marginalization and Social Hierarchies; Gender; Race
Janie Cole
Adjunct Lecturer in Musicology, University of Cape Town
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- Regions: Ethiopia; East Africa; West India; Indian Ocean World
- Time Periods: 1400-1800 CE
- Themes: Music and Slavery in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World
Viacheslav Usov
Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Regions: South Asia; East Africa; Western Indian Ocean
- Themes: Indian Diaspora in Africa; Africans in India; India’s Policy in Africa
Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi
PhD Candidate, Princeton University
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- Regions: Oman; Balochistan; East Africa
- Time Periods: 1600-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery Studies; Environmental History; Law and Society; Science History; Indian Ocean World
Anders Norge Lauridsen
PhD Student, University of Gothenburg
Website
- Regions: Madagascar
- Time Periods: 0 CE-Present (emphasis on 1600-1800 CE and Present)
- Themes: Tradition; Religion; Ritual; Slavery; Trade
Shaheera Pesnani
Art History Research Fellow, Indian Ocean Exchanges, and PA to the Director for the North, Historic England
- Regions: The Western Indian Ocean region (particularly the Makran Coastal Belt)
- Time Periods: 1500 CE-Present
- Themes: Slave Trading (particularly in relation to Baloch people); Built Environment; Climate Change
Kelly Brignac
Assistant Professor of History, Colby College
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- Regions: French Empire; Réunion; Mauritius; Madagascar; Mozambique; East Africa; Connections to French Atlantic
- Time Periods: 1800-1861 CE
- Themes: Forced Indenture of Africans; Labour; Slavery; Abolition; Bondage; Captivity; Empire
Naina Manjrekar
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Regions: Coromandel; Gujarat and Konkan Coasts; Bay of Bengal; Southeast Asia; East African Littoral
- Time Periods: 1600-2000 CE
- Themes: Seafaring Labour; Slavery; Culture; Connected Histories; Transnational Archives
Gerald Daniel Louis
Independent Scholar
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- Regions: Indian Ocean World
- Time Periods: 1700-1900 CE
- Themes: Indian Ocean World; Southeast Asia
Archisman Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor (Temporary), Rutgers University
- Regions: Indian Ocean; South Asia; South East Asia; Southern Africa; West Asia
- Time Periods: 1000 CE-Present
- Themes: Indian Ocean; Environmental History; History of Slavery; Droughts; Floods; Diseases; Trade; Empires; Little Ice Age; VOC; Mughal Empire
Smarika Nawani
Assistant Professor, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, Delhi (India)
- Regions: Kathiawar and Makran Coast; Bay of Bengal; Archipelago Southeast Asia; Mozambique and Somali Coast; the Islands in the Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 800-1700 CE
- Themes: Geography; Ecology; Material Culture and Society; Religion; Diaspora and Migrations; Cartography; Institutions
Gabrielle Robbins
PhD Candidate, MIT Anthropology
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- Regions: Madagascar
- Time Periods: Contemporary
- Themes: Slavery; Social Hierarchy; Agribusiness; Industrial Change
Abdelhakim Belhacel
PhD Candidate, Université Paris Nanterre, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Website
- Regions: Oman; Madagascar; Tanzania; Kenya; Somalia; Mozambique; Comoros; Réunion; Seychelles; Maurice; Iran; India
- Time Periods: 1770-1884 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Engagisme; Colonisation; Empires; Trade Networks; Diseases; Vaccination; Explorers; Connected History; Trans-imperial History; Diplomacy
Stefania Manfio
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
- Regions: Mascarene Islands; Madagascar; East Africa; South Africa
- Time Periods: 1700-1900 CE
- Themes: Shipwrecks; Slave Trade; Indenture; Archaeology; Trade Networks; Environment
Vololoniaina Bakoliarisoa Ratsimbazafy
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Antananarivo
- Regions: Madagascar
- Time Periods: 1960 CE-Present
- Themes: Environment
Malarvizhi Jayanth
Research Fellow in Slavery and its Impacts, King’s College, University of Cambridge
Website
- Regions: Southern India
- Time Periods: 1700-1900 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Caste; Emancipation
Charuta Ghadyalpatil
Research Associate, Art Deco Mumbai Trust
- Regions: South Asia; Indian Peninsula; Arabian Sea; Bay of Bengal
- Time Periods: 1800 CE- Present
- Themes: History of Science; Migration; Environment; Constructions of Nature and Tropicality; Spatial Histories; Area Studies; Urban Growth
Malala Onisoa Rakotojaofeno
Postdoctoral Researcher/ Assistant Professor (Temporary), University of Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Regions: Indian Ocean; Madagascar; Eastern Africa
- Time Periods: 1900 CE- Present
- Themes: Economics; Environment; Agriculture; Sustainable Development
Maho Sebiane
Research Associate, Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (UMR 8566 EHESS/CNRS)
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- Regions: Western Indian Ocean; East Africa; Persian Gulf
- Time Periods: 1600 CE- Present
- Themes: Anthropology of Music; Music History; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Music, Economy and Law in Islamicate
Chanelle Adams
Doctoral Assistant, University of Lausanne
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- Regions: Madagascar
- Time Periods: 1890 CE- Present
- Themes: Health; Botany
Kerry Ward
Associate Professor, Rice University
Website
- Regions: Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: Ancient to Present
- Themes: Forced Labour; Slavery; Slave Trade; Human Trafficking; Anti-Slavery; Anti-Human Trafficking
Steven S George
PhD Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
- Regions: South Asia; Global South
- Time Periods: 1900 CE- Present
- Themes: Global South Literature; Digital Humanities; Oceanic Literature; Marginal Literature; Slave Literature
Ghamal Satya Mohammad
PhD Student, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
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- Regions: Southeast Asia; Asia-Pacific; Asia; Europe
- Time Periods: 1700 CE- Present
- Themes: Natural Hazards; Environmental History; Slavery
Shazia Hafiz Ramji
PhD Student, Department of English, University of Calgary
Website
- Regions: East Africa; Canada; UK; South Asia; Indian and Atlantic Ocean intersections
- Time Periods: Long Eighteenth Century; Second World War
- Themes: Postcolonial East Africa; Post-45 Britain; Canada in the Era of Multicultural Policy; The Commonwealth and the Second World War; Intersection of Islam and Slavery in the Indian Ocean; Creative Writing; Historical Fiction
Ananthan V. Kurup
Post-graduate Student, Pondicherry University
- Regions:
- Time Periods: 1500-1900 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Slave Trade; Trade along Atlantic and Indian Oceans; Bondage Labour; Economic History of Slave Trade; Slavery along the Indian Ocean region by imperial powers in the South Asian region.
Dr. Paromita Patranobish
Independent Scholar
- Regions: South Asia; South-East Asia
- Time Periods: 1900 CE- Present
- Themes: Climate Fiction; Blue Humanities; Waste and Toxicity; Nonhuman Embodiment; Spectrality; Speculative Fiction
Akshita Hazarika
Post-graduate Student, University of Delhi
- Regions: South Asia
- Time Periods: 1800-2000 CE
- Themes: Labour; Environment; Ecological-Health Crisis and Motherhood on British Plantation Worlds; Impact of Climate Crisis on Women of these Plantation Worlds Today
Margot Luyckfasseel
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University
- Regions: DR Congo
- Time Periods: 1800 CE- Present
- Themes: Aftermath of Slavery; Unfree Labor; Urban Elites; Gender
Wilson Jacob
Professor, Concordia University
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- Regions: Indian Ocean World; Middle East; South Asia
- Time Periods: 1750-1945 CE
- Themes: Islam; Sufism; Imperialism; Sovereignty; Governmentality; Race; Environment
Marian Douglas-Ungaro
Founder of AFROAMERICAS;
U.S. Slavery Descendant, Multilingual Researcher
Website
- Regions: Americas; Africa, incl. Madagascar; UK/Europe; Middle East, Near East and Asia
- Time Periods: 1500 CE- Present
- Themes: UN Afrodecade: The African Slave Trades, and Slavery-Descendant Human Rights (2015-2024)
Valmiki Rama Krishna
Assistant Professor & Coordinator, Department of Studies and Research in Political Science, Tumkur University
- Regions:
- Time Periods: 2010 CE- Present
- Themes: Sustainable Development; Slavery; Bondage; Environment; Social and Inclusive Development
Harriet Zurndorfer
Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
- Regions: China; Japan; Southeast Asia
- Time Periods: 1350-1800 CE
- Themes: Human Trafficking; Economic History of China; Gender History
Joseph Christensen
Lecturer in History, The University of Western Australia
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- Regions: Australia; Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 1800-1900 CE
- Themes: Climate and Weather; Pearls and Pearling; Fish and Fisheries
Shawna Herzog
Assistant Professor, Washington State University
- Regions: Southeast Asia; Pacific
- Time Periods: 1700-1900 CE
- Themes: Imperialism; Colonialism; Commodity Networks
Saanika Patnaik
Doctoral Student, Ashoka University
- Regions: South Asian Port Cities
- Time Periods: Early Modern
- Themes: Production of Space and Community
Stephanie Mawson
Researcher, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
Website
- Regions: Philippines; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; Australia
- Time Periods: 1500-1700 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Labor; Resistance; Rebellion; Environment and Geography; Limitations of Empire
Jely A. Galang
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of the Philippines-Diliman
- Regions: Southeast and East Asia
- Time Periods: Late 18th century- 1900 CE
- Themes: Chinese contract laborers
Salvatory S. Nyanto
Senior Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam
- Regions: East Africa
- Time Periods: 1878-1978 CE
- Themes: Slavery and Missionaries in Western Tanzania
Meenu Rabecca
PhD Candidate, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
- Regions: Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: Early Modern
- Themes: Indian Ocean History
Stephen Rockel
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
- Regions: East Africa; Africa; Western Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 1800 CE- early 20th century
- Themes: Labour; Slavery; Urbanization; Environment; Conflict
Sukhvinder Multani
Research Officer, Ajeenkya DY Patil University
- Regions:
- Time Periods:
- Themes: Indian Ocean Politics; International Relations
Gautam Joseph
Joint PhD Student at National University of Singapore and King’s College London
Website
- Regions: South India; Malaya/Singapore; Persian Gulf/Emirates
- Time Periods: 1850 CE- Present
- Themes: Indian Ocean Labour Migration; Postcolonial Literature; Climate Displacement
Malini Ranganathan
Associate Professor, American University, School of International Service, Washington, DC
Website
- Regions: Southern India; Malaya
- Time Periods: 1890s-1930s CE
- Themes: Caste; Tamils; Malaya; Migration; Indentured Labor Migration
Alexandra Taylor Sundarsingh
PhD Candidate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Regions: South Asia; Southeast Asia; South Asian Diaspora
- Time Periods: 1750s-1950s CE
- Themes: Migration; Gender; Food; Indenture
Ruchie Mark Pototanon
PhD Candidate, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
- Regions: Southeast Asia
- Time Periods: 1800 CE- Present
- Themes: Disasters; Typhoons; Floods
Sithabile Mlotshwa
Artist, Sithabile Art Projects
Website
- Regions: Indian Ocean and the Pacific
- Time Periods: 1400-1900 CE
- Themes: History of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific; Colonisation; Slavery; Maritime Period
Kirti Durelle
PhD Student, UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture
- Regions: La Réunion
- Time Periods: 1700-1800 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Marronage; Race and Space; Landscape; Racial Capitalism; Architecture
Dr. Mark Balmforth
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Website
- Regions: Sri Lanka; India; Tamil-speaking Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 1600-1900 CE
- Themes: Caste; Slavery; Education; Religion; Agriculture; Debt; Colonialism; Capitalism
Manorama Akung
Senior Lecturer, University of Mauritius
- Regions: Indian Ocean World
- Time Periods: 1700-2000 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Indenture; Politics and Institutional History; Economic History; Culture and Heritage; Environmental History; Children and Childhood; History of Science and Technology
Awet Teklehimanot Araya
Project Curator: Africa, The British Museum / University of Exeter
- Regions: Horn of Africa; East Africa; Indian Ocean; Persian Gulf
- Time Periods: 600-1900 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Diaspora; Islam; Maritime Networks; Ceramics; Archaeology
Alice Engelhard
PhD Student, LSE
- Regions: Indian Ocean; British Empire
- Time Periods: 1500 CE- Present
- Themes: Empire; People in Movement; Tourism; Slavery; Mobility; Diaspora; Knowledge
Shinzo Hayase
Professor, Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Tokyo
Website
- Regions: Southeast Asia
- Time Periods: Modern
- Themes: Japanese immigrants in Southeast Asia
Dr. Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih
Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
- Regions: Pacific; Caribbean
- Time Periods: 1900 CE- Present
- Themes: Indentured Labour Diaspora; Slavery; Memories; Literature; Francophone
P. Sanal Mohan
Dr. K. Mathew Kurian Chair Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India
- Regions: Kerala; Indian Ocean
- Time Periods: 1600-1930 CE
- Themes: Caste Slavery; Abolition; Christian Missions and Anti Slavery Mobilisation; State Policy; Modernity and Social Movements; Race and Caste; Political Economy; Global History of Slavery
Mamaye Idriss
Postdoctorat, Ined, Cessma (University of Paris Cité)
Website
- Regions: Mayotte; Comoros; La Reunion
- Time Periods: 1800-2000 CE
- Themes: Social and Political Mobilization; Gender Violence; Gender Issues
Felice Noelle Rodriguez
Visiting Professor, Ateneo de Zamboanga University
- Regions: Philippines; Malaysia; Indonesia
- Time Periods: 1500-1900 CE
- Themes: Slavery; Environment; Raiding; Indigenous Peoples