Karwan Fatah-Black is lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University. He is a prominent voice in the academic and societal debates on colonial history and its legacies. Karwan Fatah-Black is senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV-KNAW) and university lecturer at Leiden University. Since completing his PhD (2013) he has studied the history of the Atlantic world, enslavement, and emancipation strategies. With museums and heritage institutions he works on creating new narratives about the colonial past and post-colonial futures.