Selwyn R. Cudjoe

Selwyn R. Cudjoe is a professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. In 2019 he won the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize for demonstrated excellence as a teacher. He has taught at Harvard, Cornell, Ohio, and Fordham universities. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is The Slave Master of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, that was long listed on the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. He has written for several publications including the New York Times, the New Left Review, and the Harvard Educational Review. Presently, he writes a weekly column for the Trinidad Express.