#  AAAS Professor Marlous van Waijenburg Awarded National Science Grant  

 





August 05, 2021

 

 

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $330,000 research grant ([No. 2116150](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116150&HistoricalAwards=false)) to **[AAAS Professor Marlous van Waijenburg](/people/marlous-van-waijenburg)** for her new project “Investing in Captivity: Financing the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Professor van Waijenburg shares the grant with her Co-Principal Investigator Professor Anne Ruderman (London School of Economics). The project explores the transnational investment structure behind the transatlantic slave trade and the long-term individual and familial wealth legacies that arose from investing in the trade.

 

 

 



 

 

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