Henry B. Lovejoy is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in the history of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World during the era of the transatlantic slave trade.

He is an affiliate of the University of Colorado's Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. He teaches graduate courses in Digital History, such as "Mapping the Past Using Digital Cartography," among others which provide overviews of digital methods and technologies. He is developing historical GIS methods with statistical models to determine when and where enslaved Africans originated within pre-colonial Africa; and when and where they went in the diaspora.

His digital research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SSHRC, the Fulbright-Hays Program, and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.