Lorelle Semley
Professor, Director of African and African Diaspora Studies
Biography
Lorelle Semley is a historian of Africa and the African diaspora. She is also a core faculty member and current director of the African and African Diaspora Studies program. Her research interests cover West Africa and the Atlantic world with a focus on race, gender, legal history, urban history, and Black French Studies. Her current book project is on the history of African and Caribbean communities in Bordeaux, France from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Her work has been most recently supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently Editor-in-chief of History in Africa , one of the two flagship journals of the African Studies Association and an Associate Review Editor for the American Historical Review.