Ibrahim K. Sundiata

Ibrahim K. Sundiata is an American scholar of West African and African-American history.He received his undergraduate education at Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., 1966), and a Ph.D. (1972) at Northwestern University, where he studied under Ivor Wilks.He is currently the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African-American Studies at Brandeis University.He has received grants from the Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Fulbright Program, and was a fellow at the W.E.B.Sundiata's research has focused on Atlantic slavery, migration and colonialism and its legacies in Equatorial Guinea and Liberia, and, more recently, on race relations in the United States and Latin America, particularly in Brazil.
AmericanWest AfricanAfrican-AmericanhistoryOhio Wesleyan UniversityNorthwestern UniversityIvor WilksBrandeis UniversityHoward UniversityRutgers UniversityUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoUniversidade Federal da BahiaFord FoundationWoodrow Wilson CenterFulbright ProgramW.E.B. DuBois InstituteHarvard UniversityCouncil on Foreign RelationsslaverycolonialismEquatorial GuineaLiberiaUnited StatesLatin AmericaBrazil