Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf

Dr. Sylviane Diouf, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, Brown University, has authored and edited 13 books, including Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, which received the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2009, the United Nations’ theme for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Slave Trade was based on her book and displayed Cudjo Lewis’ photographs and quotes. In 2015, Diouf adressed the UN General Assembly on “Women and Slavery”. Dr. Diouf received the Rosa Parks Award, the Dr. Betty Shabazz Achievement Award, and the Pen and Brush Achievement Award. She was the founding director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.