The Routes of the Enslavement in the Americas project directors are pleased to announce the appointment of our postdoctoral fellow, Amanda Faulkner. In affiliation with SlaveVoyages.org, the postdoc appointment will be held at the University of California, Merced from 2025-2026.
Amanda Faulkner is a historian of gender, slavery, and transatlantic connections in the early modern period. Her work examines the experiences of migrants, especially free and enslaved Africans, in the Atlantic World. It traces the routes of migration – and hence, the routes of enslavement – that were traversed by these members of the African diaspora. Dr. Faulkner’s work pays particular attention to the Black experience in the Dutch Atlantic World. Drawing on notarial records, eyewitness testimonies, court documents, and epistolary records, her research reveals that transatlantic mobility was critical to the shaping of African diasporic communities and other migrant communities in the Atlantic World.
Dr. Faulkner’s position is housed in the Department of History and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and affiliated with the Center for Africana Studies, so she will contribute to the intellectual life of these campus units at UC Merced.
