Afua Cooper - RaceB4Race Genealogies

Multidisciplinary scholar, author, and artist, Dr. Afua Cooper is a fellow at the Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. She is a pioneering scholar and researcher in Black Canadian history, and the leading expert in Canadian slavery studies. Dr. Cooper also chaired the scholarly panel that investigated Dalhousie University’s connection to slavery and anti-Blackness. She also lead the research efforts, and was the principal author of the subsequent report Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race. These initiatives revealed the connections between the university and the Atlantic slaving systems.
Afua is the PI for A Black People’s History of Canada project housed at Dalhousie University where she teaches and holds a Killam Research Chair. Additionally, she is a member of the International Scientific Committee for the Routes of Enslaved peoples, UNESCO. Dr. Cooper was honored by Maclean’s magazine as one of the 50 most influential Canadians.
A celebrated poet, in 2020 Dr. Cooper was Awarded the Portia White Prize, Nova Scotia’s highest recognition for the arts. She is also the winner of the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award for her poetry book Black Matters.
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