Jane Landers

Jane Landers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and the US representative to UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project. She is Director of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Database, which preserves the oldest serial records for Africans and their descendants in the Americas. Landers’s award-winning monographs include Black Society in Spanish Florida [1999] and Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions [2011]. She is also the coauthor or editor of five other books and author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

Her research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the British Library Endangered Archives Programme. Landers serves as a historical consultant on archaeological investigations, museum exhibits, and documentary films, including most recently the PBS documentary “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” winner of the 2014 George Foster Peabody Award and 2014 Emmy, Outstanding Historical Program.