ROBIN PHYLISIA CHAPDELAINE, PH.D.
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Robin P. Chapdelaine, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University, where she leads initiatives that strengthen global engagement, academic partnerships, and student success. A historian, educator, and higher education leader, her work bridges scholarship, strategic leadership, and innovation to expand educational opportunities and foster meaningful collaborations across institutions and communities.
Dr. Chapdelaine is a scholar of African history whose research explores slavery, child trafficking, migration, gender, and labor in West Africa. She is the author of The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (2021) and co-editor of When Will the Joy Come? Black Women in the Ivory Tower (2023). Her scholarship has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes, including Journal of Migration History, Journal of West African History, African Economic History, Radical Teacher, and Genealogy. Her article on Nigerian migrant labor and gender relations received the 2021 Outstanding Article Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).
Dr. Chapdelaine is a scholar of African history whose research explores slavery, child trafficking, migration, gender, and labor in West Africa. She is the author of The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (2021) and co-editor of When Will the Joy Come? Black Women in the Ivory Tower (2023). Her scholarship has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes, including Journal of Migration History, Journal of West African History, African Economic History, Radical Teacher, and Genealogy. Her article on Nigerian migrant labor and gender relations received the 2021 Outstanding Article Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).