EUROTAST fellow Marcela Sandoval is conducting her PhD at the University of Copenhagen at the Centre for GeoGenetics under the supervision of Dr. Hannes Schroeder and Professor Tom Gilbert. She is working to better understand the origins of Africans captured during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade through studying aDNA.
EUROTAST fellow Anuradha Jagadeesan is conducting her PhD at University of Iceland and deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland under the supervision of Dr. Agnar Helgason. She is working to complete a computational reconstruction of Hans Jonatan’s genome from those of his descendants. In this video Anuradha describes her research project.
EUROTAST fellow Sarah Abel is conducting her PhD at CIRESC (Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages) under the supervision of Professor Myriam Cottias. She is a Sociocultural Anthropologist who examines the impact of ancestry genetics tests on understandings of heritage and identity in the United States and Brazil. In this video Sarah describes the questions and concerns with this research.
EUROTAST fellow Ryan Espersen is conducting his PhD in Archaeology at the University of Leiden under the supervision of Dr. Jay Haviser and Prof. Corinne Hofman. His research is on the historical archaeology of the Caribbean islands of Saba and St. Eustatius and his interest how notions of ‘race’ developed in the northern Dutch Caribbean. In this video…
EUROTAST fellow Jessica Hendy is a scientist and archaeologist who studies health and disease during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She is based at the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and is supervised by Dr. Matthew Collins. Check out the video for more about Jessica’s fascinating research!
EUROTAST fellow Winston Phulgence is conducting his PhD in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, supervised by Jonathan Finch. His work on memorialization and the Transatlantic Slave Trade reaches from Ghana, to the Caribbean, and into the United States. In this video we hear Winston describe his project, as we try to capture…