DR Esteban Alfaro Salas

Biography	Esteban Salas is a Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He holds a PhD in African history from the University of Notre Dame and he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. His research centers on West Central African precolonial and colonial societies and the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. His current work focuses on themes of freedom, autonomy, refuge-making, and racial thinking around slavery and labor in Angola. He has done archival research in Angola, Portugal, and the United States with support from the Luso-American Foundation, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and Royal Air Maroc. His publications include contributions on the volumes African Women in the Atlantic World, Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1660-1880 and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History; and the journal African Economic History.
Teaching and Learning	Undergraduate: Atlantic Slavery and its Legacies in Africa. Intimacies and Resistance in Atlantic Africa. World History and Global Connectivities. Postgraduate: Africa in World History. Gender Perspectives in Africa (collaborator).

Biography

Esteban Salas is a Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He holds a PhD in African history from the University of Notre Dame and he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. His research centers on West Central African precolonial and colonial societies and the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. His current work focuses on themes of freedom, autonomy, refuge-making, and racial thinking around slavery and labor in Angola. He has done archival research in Angola, Portugal, and the United States with support from the Luso-American Foundation, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and Royal Air Maroc. His publications include contributions on the volumes African Women in the Atlantic World, Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1660-1880 and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History; and the journal African Economic History.

Teaching and Learning

Undergraduate:
Atlantic Slavery and its Legacies in Africa.
Intimacies and Resistance in Atlantic Africa.
World History and Global Connectivities.

Postgraduate:
Africa in World History.
Gender Perspectives in Africa (collaborator).