Kristin Mann (born September 12, 1946) is an American historian and author renowned for her works on the history of

slavery in Africa Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of the rest of the Ancient history, ancient and Post-classical history, medieval world. When t ...

. In 2002, she was awarded the

Guggenheim Fellowships Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

award. She is currently a Professor of History at

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

Druid Hills, Georgia Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place (CDP) in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhoods of Atlanta, neighborhood of the ci ...

, United States.

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American women historians Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Emory University faculty Stanford University alumni Historians of Nigeria 1946 births 21st-century American women {{US-historian-stub