The UC MRPI project “Routes of Enslavement in the Americas,” led by co-PIs Alex Borucki (UCI), Gregory O’Malley (UCSC), and Sabrina Smith (UCM), intends to enlarge the network of collaborating scholars and students within the UC system to expand the investigation of the traffic of African and African-descended captives to include trafficking in the Black Pacific (in the coasts from California to Chile), within colonial Mexico (including California), as well as an investigation of the migration of free and enslaved people from the Caribbean islands to the mainland Americas. To accomplish this goal, we will award research grants for ladder-rank faculty and graduate students from all the UC campuses engaged in the study of the African Diaspora in Spring 2023, 2024, and 2025.
To apply for the Research Grants "Routes of Enslavements in the Americas" for Faculty and Graduate Students visit: https://ucihumanities.infoready4.com/#
Applications will be open in the Winter of 2025.
Justin Dannavant, UCLA, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
2023 grant recipient
Justin doing mapping work in the Florida Keys together with Diving with a Purpose
and The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
Grants Awarded
The Spring 2024 call received applications from 16 faculty and 22 graduate students across the UC system. The faculty review committee awarded grants to 11 faculty and 10 graduate students from this competitive pool.
FACULTY AWARDS
Kevin Dawson, UC Merced, Black Seaports in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Juan Cobo, UC Santa Barbara, Routes of Enslavement in the Highlands of Colombia
Jessica Millward, UCI, My Soul Never Left: Slavery and Ghana in the African American Historical Imagination
Justin Dunnavant, UCLA, The Search for the Black Star Line
Rachel O'Toole, UCI, Enslaved Revolts: Patterns of Rebellion in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th Centuries
Manuel Covo, UC Santa Barbara, Abolishing Fiscal Frontiers: Colonies, Slavery, and Taxation in the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions
Giuliana Perrone, UC Santa Barbara, Rehearsals for Reparations
Jeffrey Erbig, UC Santa Cruz, Black Presidiarios and Reclusas
Genesis Lara, UCI, Mobilizing Grief: Dominican Feminisms and Caribbean Human Rights
Bristin Jones, UC Merced, In the Name of Cacao: Routes of Enslavement in Venezuela’s Costa Aragüeña
David Igler, UCI, Manuscript Workshop for "Erecting Eden"
GRADUATE AWARDS
Alvarez Rodriguez, Viviana, UCI, Post-Revolutionary Migration in Two Afro-Descendant Veracruzan Municipalities
Alzate, Karol, UC Berkeley, Boga Epistemologies: Rivers, Resistance, and Routes Through Colombia's Pacific and Atlantic Coasts
Bermudez Perez, Adrian, UC Berkeley, Livable Worlds: Afro-Caribbean Environments in the Nineteenth-Century
Gavin, Marissa, UCI, Stolen Bodies: Slavery in the Pacific
Gomez, Spencer, UCI, Navigating Freedom: Black Diaspora, Foreign Expertise, and Resistance in New Granada
Humphrey, Jewell, 4, UCLA, The Search for the Black Star Line
McCord, Elizabeth, UC Berkeley, The Black Seminoles: Indigeneity, Land, and Race in a Transnational Maroon Community
Min, Jungki, UC Santa Barbara, Alliances and Conflicts: Leadership and Gender Dynamics among Free People of Color in the Haitian Revolution
Ramirez Restrepo, Maria del Pilar, UC Santa Barbara, Documenting Routes of Enslavement in Northwestern Colombia
Soto, Andreina, UC Santa Barbara, A Place of Paradoxes: Black People's Legal Strategies in Early Modern Venezuela