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Manuel Barcia is a Professor of Global History at the University of Leeds, within the School of History, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. He holds fellowships at Harvard and Yale and has been honored with the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2014) and the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize (2020). His research focuses on slavery, abolition, piracy, and imperial history in the Atlantic World.
Barcia holds a PhD from the University of Essex and has taught at the Universities of Essex, Nottingham, and Leeds since 2006. His work bridges historical analysis with modern debates on slavery’s legacies, reparations, and university institutional histories. He has authored influential books such as The Yellow Demon of Fever (2020) and West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba (2014).
His current research examines 19th-century anti-piracy policies. Barcia also contributes to public discourse via Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, and The Independent. He supervises PhD students exploring topics like abolitionist networks, slave resistance, and transatlantic migration.
As an editor of Atlantic Studies and affiliated with multiple global history centers, Barcia fosters interdisciplinary collaboration. His work critically engages with historical memory, colonialism, and the African diaspora’s cultural and political struggles.
