University of California, Santa Cruz
Faculty Member, Anthropology
Assistant Professor
About
Professor Cameron Monroe’s research broadly examines political, economic, and cultural transformation in West Africa and the Diaspora in the era of the slave trade. He has conducted research on the nature of African-American ethnic identity and household-level production in early colonial Virginia. His current research project, the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project, is located in the Republic of Bénin in West Africa. This project explores the dynamics of political transformation in West Africa in the era of the slave trade. Integrating documentary, oral, and archaeological data, this research focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment and the nature of urban transformation in contact period West Africa.
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