Professor Audra Diptee has recently published an article entitled “The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?” in the journal Slavery & Abolition. Her article proposes a methodology that better enables historians to engage with contemporary issues such as human trafficking. This is part of her larger project History as Weapon: Writing Radical Caribbean Histories. In 2018, Dr. Diptee will be developing her ideas on history and modern-day slavery further at the Bellagio Center in Italy as she was recently awarded a Rockefellar Residency Writing Fellowship.