Welcome

The Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group at Yale University provides a platform for interaction for a diverse group of top scholars researching Modern Slavery and Trafficking to come together and explore opportunities of intellectual exchange and collaboration. Group members are experts on different dimensions of contemporary slavery and trafficking who share a commitment to big-picture thinking, rigorous scholarship, public engagement, and to carving out the policy relevance of their work. More about the group here.

News

October 10, 2018
Roundtable on the Future of Work Co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and openDemocracy. Commentary from twelve leading experts in the field, including Gilder Lehrman Center...
October 1, 2018
Grace Peña Delgado, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of...
Registration for GLC’s 20th Annual Conference, “Fighting Modern Slavery: What Works?”, is now open
September 19, 2018
Artwork by Carys Boughton Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University  Free and open to the public. There...
September 19, 2018
Elena Shih, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies and Director of the Human Trafficking research cluster through the Center for the Study of Slavery and...
Andrew Crane holds up his 2018 Best Buisness Ethics Paper Award
August 28, 2018
Congratulations to GLC Modern Slavery Working Group member Andrew Crane for winning the Best Paper and the Best Business Ethics Paper awards in the Social Issues in...