Author Archives: Heather Sanford
Dr. Heather Sanford is the Associate Director of Research and Chief of Staff at the Howard Institute for Advanced Study. She earned her PhD from Brown University. A historian of early American and Atlantic slavery, she has contributed to acclaimed multimedia public history projects, including five New York Times bestsellers, an Oscar-shortlisted and Emmy-nominated documentary, and an award-winning podcast. She was the lead researcher and author of a high school curriculum unit on the history of racial slavery in the Americas, which was recognized by the New York Times in 2021 as a resource for teaching about race and racism.
