CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY AND JUSTICE
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THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY AND JUSTICE
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ), established in 2012, is a scholarly research center with a public humanities mission. It was established based on recommendations that emerged from the Slavery and Justice Report. Recognizing that racial and chattel slavery were central to the historical formation of the Americas and the modern world, the CSSJ creates a space for the interdisciplinary study of the historical forms of slavery while also examining how these legacies shape our contemporary world.
OUR WORK AND RESEARCH
The Center creates a space for debate, programming, and research working with interns, student workers, and graduate postdoctoral fellows as well as faculty fellows. The Center supports research clusters and projects that address issues pertaining to race and legacies of slavery such as human trafficking, the American criminal justice system, and race, medicine and social justice among others. The Center also partners with faculty, curators, researchers, practitioners, and artists across disciplines to produce and share new scholarship about the ways in which slavery informs our present. The Center supports this work both within and beyond the academy, by engaging with the public through the Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour and exhibitions exploring race and its intersections in our contemporary world in public education, art, and other forms of embedded knowledge, such as culinary practices.