Audra A. Diptée

Associate Professor; Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

• Carleton University, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

Associate Professor of History, Audra Diptée’s research focuses on the history of the Caribbean and has covered a number of themes including slavery, childhood, colonialism, race-relations, and historical memory.

She has held research and writing fellowships at the Bellagio Center in Italy (The Rockefeller Foundation) and Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. She was awarded the post of Professeure Invitée at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 (L’IHEAL).

Her research has been funded by a number of organizations and agencies including the Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Organization of American States, the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, and the Atlantic History Seminar at Harvard University.

Her current project, entitled Chained in Paradise, focuses on the 20th century anglophone Caribbean. It explores the ways in which colonialists and anti-colonialists used history in their battle to determine the region’s future.

To learn more about her work, click here.