Henry Lovejoy is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is director of the Digital Slavery Research Lab. His research focuses on focuses on the political, economic, and cultural history of Africa and the African diaspora. His teaching integrates large-scale statistical analysis, GIS mapping, biography, and music to explore slavery, abolition, and migration. His first biography, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba, won the Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano Foundation prize for Yoruba Studies and was a finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau prize. He co-edited Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 and Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives. His research has appeared in Past & Present, Journal of African History, Slavery & Abolition, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Canadian Journal of African Studies, among others. He directs open-source digital resources including, LiberatedAfricans.org and SlaveryImages.org, which have been supported by federal granting agencies and academic institutions in Canada and the United States.