Jane Landers
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt professor of history and Director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive
Jane Landers is a historian specializing in the history of Africans and their descendants in Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World. Landers directs the Slave Societies Digital Archive hosted by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt. The SSDA preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to slavery in the Atlantic World.
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Daniel Genkins
Mellon assistant professor of history and digital humanities and executive director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive
Daniel Genkins is an assistant professor of history and digital humanities. He also conducted his graduate studies in history, digital humanities and data science at Vanderbilt. Toward the end of his graduate student career, he began working on the Slave Societies Digital Archive, where he is now the executive director.
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