CONTRIBUTOR:

Karwan Fatah-Black

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Institute for History

INSTITUTION:

Leiden University

BIOGRAPHY:

Karwan Fatah-Black (1981) is assistant professor at the Institute for History of Leiden University. In 2015 his monograph 'White Lies and Black Markets: evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800' was published with Brill Academic Publishers. That year he received the prestigious VENI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to develop and reinvigorate the field of slavery studies in the Netherlands through an investigation of urban slave agency and empowerment in 18th and 19th century Suriname. In 2016 the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) awarded him the biannual Heineken Young Scientist Award in the category of historical sciences.