Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is a specialist on colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World, specializing in the history of Africans and their descendants. She has been a member of UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee Slave Route Project since 2015 and is past-President of the Conference on Latin American History, the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, and the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association. She serves on the editorial boards for Slavery & Abolition, Colonial Latin American Historical Review and Oxford Bibliography On-line: Atlantic World. Her publications include Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (2010) and Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999).