Tessa helped me compile French legislation regarding the slave trade, as an undergraduate at Harvard from 2016 to 2018. She is currently a PhD student in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Program at Harvard Medical School.

Maddie transcribed instructions that the Royal African Company issued to its captains in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and worked with me to put together the database behind the article, “(Un)principled Agents” while studying for her undergraduate degree in Economic History at LSE and after graduating in 2019. She is currently a consultant at the strategy consulting firm Bain & Co, working with executives across a variety of industries including retail, charities and private equity.

Adam transcribed and coded instructions that the Royal African Company issued to its captains in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and helped assemble the database behind the article, “(Un)principled Agents.” Adam graduated from the University of Chicago in 2020 and worked as a high school history teacher with Teach for America for two years. He is currently an associate with Quadrant Strategies in Washington DC.

Kaelyn coded instructions that the Royal African Company issued to its captains in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and helped assemble the database behind the article, “(Un)principled Agents.” Kaelyn is currently a Ph.D. Student in History & African American Studies at Yale University studying the legal principle of partus sequitur ventrem and the socio-legal identities of mixed-race children born to African mothers throughout the seventeenth-century English Atlantic world.

Ayo constructed and ran algorithms for the Investing in Captivity project. He is currently a junior studying Computer Science at Princeton University, while pursuing certificates in Finance and Neuroscience

Joanna coded instructions that the Royal African Company issued to its captains in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After working in publishing for a year, she is excited to begin her graduate studies at Columbia Law School in the fall of 2022.

Lina is helping compile background research on female investment in the slave trade for the NSF-funded project “Investing in Captivity” (joint with Marlous van Waijenburg). She is currently finishing her MSc in Economic History at the London School of Economics where she is writing her dissertation on the domestic impacts of Swedish mercantile policy.