2019 Lapidus Center Conference
Please join us for the 2019 Lapidus Center Conference entitled “Enduring Slavery: Resistance, Public Memory, and Transatlantic Archives,” which will…
2019 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists
2019 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce…
Black New Yorkers and the Fight for the African Burial Ground from the Colonial Period to the Present
By Christopher D. E. Willoughby In the process of constructing a new federal building in lower Manhattan in 1991, archaeologists…
DEADLINE EXTENDED – Call for Papers: 2019 Lapidus Center Conference
2019 Lapidus Center Conference Enduring Slavery: Resistance, Public Memory, and Transatlantic Archives The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of…
2018 Harriet Tubman Prize Winner
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is delighted to announce that Dr. Tamara J. Walker is…
Accepting Applications: 2019-2020 Short and Long-Term Fellowships
The Lapidus Center offers two long-term fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access…
2018 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists
2018 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the…
Accepting Submissions: 2019 Harriet Tubman Book Prize
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the fourth annual Harriet Tubman Prize,…
New Associate Director and Curator of the Lapidus Center
Michelle Commander joined the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as Associate Director and Curator of the Lapidus Center…
Dr. Diouf Bids Farewell to the Schomburg Center
After sixteen years at the Schomburg Center and three years as inaugural director of the Lapidus Center, I am retiring.…