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Posthumus fellow Pepijn Brandon receives ERC Synergy grant
Professor Pepijn Brandon, fellow and also subsitute member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, recently was awarded, together with three other researchers a Synergy Grant of 10 million euros to investigate these questions within the TASTADE (The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe) project by the European Research Council (ERC).
Together with William Pettigrew (University of Lancaster), Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice) and Leonardo Marques (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro) (each experts on the history of the slave trade, but combining specialisms on different regions, periods, types of historical sources and approaches), Pepijn Brandon will lead the TASTADE project (The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe). A large team of junior researchers, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and data specialists will collect, compare and analyse data on investors in the slave trade within this six-year project.
The ERC Grant will enable them to coordinate archival work in a wide range of languages and national contexts. One of the major innovations in their approach is that they do not focus specifically on the Dutch, English, French, Spanish or Portuguese slave trade, but on the transnational networks that linked investors in all parts of Europe.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Pepijn and his fellow researchers with this grant!.
