The Institute of African Studies is pleased to announce our new director, Dr. Mariana Candido.

Mariana P. Candido is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History, at the Departament of History, Emory University. Prof. Candido is the author of, Wealth, Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality (2022), a finalist for the 2023 ASA Book Best Book Prize in African Studies. She is also the author of An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World (2013), is a social history of Benguela between 1600 and 1850; and , Fronteras de esclavización: esclavitud, comercio e identidade en Benguela, 1780-1850 (2011), which was translated into Portuguese and published in Angola in 2018. Besides these three monographs, Candido has organised African Women in the Atlantic World. Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1680-1880, with Adam Jones (James Currey, 2019); Laços Atlânticos: África e africanos durante a era do comércio transatlântico de escravos, with Carlos Liberato, Paul Lovejoy and Renée Soulodre-La France, Luanda, Angola: Museu Nacional da Escravatura/ Ministério da Cultura; and Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul Lovejoy (African World Press, 2011).

Candido is one of the editors of African Economic History and the Encyclopedia of Slavery, Slave Trade, and the Diaspora in African History.

Candido is currently the Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History, at the American Academy in Berlin, Fall 2023 and will be a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, Spring 2024.

We are excited about the leadership of our new director and the programming that lies ahead.