{"id":10981,"date":"2017-11-01T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:15","slug":"history-professor-article-rockefeller-foundation-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2017\/history-professor-article-rockefeller-foundation-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"History Professor Publishes Article and Receives a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        History Professor Publishes Article and Receives a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Audra Diptee has recently published an article entitled &#8220;The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?&#8221; in the journal <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/fsla20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slavery &amp; Abolition<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/i>Her article proposes a methodology that better enables historians to engage with contemporary issues such as human trafficking. &nbsp;This is part of her larger project <i>History as Weapon: Writing Radical Caribbean Histories. &nbsp;<\/i>In 2018, &nbsp;Dr. Diptee will&nbsp;be developing her ideas on history and modern-day slavery further at the Bellagio Center in Italy as she was <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2017\/history-professor-receives-rockefeller-foundation-bellagio-centre-residency-fellowship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently awarded<\/a> a Rockefellar Residency Writing Fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"909\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003.png\" alt=\"Slavery and Abolition Journal Cover\" class=\"wp-image-10982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003.png 909w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003-160x77.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003-240x116.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003-400x193.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003-360x174.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/image003-200x97.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Audra Diptee has recently published an article entitled &#8220;The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?&#8221; in the journal Slavery &amp; Abolition. &nbsp;Her article proposes a methodology that better enables historians to engage with contemporary issues such as human trafficking. &nbsp;This is part of her larger project History as Weapon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}