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Diptee"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Caribbean &amp; Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Humanitarianism &amp; Human Rights Discourses (Caribbean)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Childhood &amp; Children<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slavery &amp; Human Trafficking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical Applied History, Memory, Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Race &amp; Racism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019, Professeure Invit\u00e9e, l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris 3)<br>2018, Writing Residency Fellowship,&nbsp;Bellagio Center (Italy), The Rockefeller Foundation<br>2012 Visiting Fellowship,&nbsp;Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University<br>2010 Workshop Grant,&nbsp;Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada<br>2010 Standard Research Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council<br>2003 David Nichols Memorial Prize, Society of Caribbean Studies, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Slavery &amp; Abolition<\/em>, Vol. 39 (2), 2018, 405-428.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNotions of African Childhood in Abolitionist Discourses: Colonial and Post-Colonial Humanitarianism in the Fight Against Child Slavery.\u201d&nbsp; Anna Mae Duane (ed),&nbsp;<em>Child Slavery Before &amp; After Emancipation,&nbsp;<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAtlantic Childhoods, Global Contexts.\u201d Special issue of&nbsp;<em>Atlantic Studies: Global Currents<\/em>, Vol. 11 (4), 2014. \u2013 with David V. Trotman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAtlantic Childhood and Youth in Global Context: Reflections on the Global South.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Atlantic Studies: Global Currents<\/em>, Vol. 11 (4), 2014, 437-448. \u2013 with David V. Trotman<em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Remembering Africa &amp; Its Diasporas:&nbsp; Memory, Public History &amp; Representations of the Past<\/em>&nbsp;(Africa World Press, 2012) \u2013 with David V. Trotman.<em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1776-1807<\/em>&nbsp; (University Press of Florida, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChildren in Colonial Africa.\u201d<em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Special issue of the&nbsp;<em>Journal of Family History<\/em><em>,<\/em>&nbsp;Vol. 35 (1), 2010 \u2013 with Martin A. Klein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juanita&nbsp;De&nbsp;Barros,&nbsp;Audra&nbsp;Diptee&nbsp;and&nbsp;David&nbsp;Trotman,&nbsp;<em>Beyond&nbsp;Fragmentation:&nbsp;Perspectives&nbsp;in&nbsp;Caribbean<br>History<\/em>,&nbsp;(New&nbsp;Jersey:&nbsp;Markus&nbsp;Weiner&nbsp;Publishers,&nbsp;2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018African&nbsp;Children&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;British&nbsp;Slave&nbsp;Trade&nbsp;During&nbsp;the&nbsp;Late&nbsp;Eighteenth&nbsp;Century,\u2019&nbsp;<em>Slavery&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Abolition,&nbsp;<\/em>Vol.&nbsp;27&nbsp;(2),&nbsp;August&nbsp;2006, 183-196.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23836,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Audra A.","cu_people_last_name":"Diptee","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[61],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-190","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor - Africa and the Caribbean, slavery, race relations; critical applied history and historical consciousness; children and childhood; race, power, memory, and identity in Global South contexts","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (York), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"audra.diptee@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"4203","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"http:\/\/www.audradiptee.com\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26613,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/190\/revisions\/26613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}