"Consumer and corporate-focused approaches to labour exploitation and trafficking are ineffective," writes Dr. Elena Shih. Read CSSJ Human Trafficking Research Cluster Fellow Dr. Elena Shih's article in Al Jazeera on labour abuse in the Global South here.

In leading “Slavery’s New Materialisms,” Professor Seth Rockman hopes to give the seminar’s members an opportunity to engage with a scholarly turn in Slavery Studies occurring right before our eyes.

“This is a different way of learning and engaging in history,” notes Professor Zach Sell of the work of the Atlantic Slave Trade Research Cluster. Since 2017, the CSSJ has been engaged in an ongoing collaboration with Firelight Media to produce a groundbreaking, multi-part documentary series entitled Creating the New World: The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Professor Sell, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the CSSJ and Associate Producer with Firelight, has been guiding this partnership.