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Asligul Berktay
Asli Berktay is a historian of Africa and the African diaspora and of the slave trade and the enslaved experience, as well as a scholar of critical race theory. She is an assistant professor of history in the Department of Humanities at Texas A&M International University. Before joining TAMIU, Asli taught at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA); at Bosphorus University, Sabanci University, Bilgi University, and Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul, Turkey); and at NYU Shanghai and East China Normal University (Shanghai, China). The book she is currently working on analyses the testaments of freed Africans in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, from the perspective of identity and community formation. She has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Third Text and Religions.
Contact: Department of Humanities, Texas A&M International University, 5201 University Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041, USA.