Francoise Summers, Architect
Moulin a Poudre Cultural Landscape Project
Françoise left her native Mauritius to study architecture at the University of Manchester, England. She worked on a development project in Egypt where she widened her interests in traditional architecture and appropriate technology. In 1984 she moved to Turkey and between 1992 and 2014 taught in the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University with a focus on environmental design and sustainability. From 1993 to 2012, pioneering new approaches for the study of large urban sites, Françoise and her husband Geoffrey have together dedicated much of their time to all aspects of the Kerkenes Project which has now reached a final publication phase. In 2002 Françoise initiated the Kerkenes Eco-Centre Project bringing together issues concerning archaeology and community to further sustainable rural development by promoting energy efficiency, water management and appropriate building materials. Since 2002 Francoise and Geoffrey have been project leaders for several programs of research and the documentation of cultural heritage. Based now in Mauritius, Francoise is a team member of the Powder Mills survey and excavation.


Geoffrey D. Summers, Independent Archaeologist
Moulin a Poudre Cultural Landscape Project, Plantation Archaeology, Fortifications, Landscape Archaeology
 Geoffrey obtained his BA and PhD from Manchester University, UK. He has taken part in fieldwork in the UK, Africa and many parts of the Ancient Near East. While Assistant Director at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara for almost a decade he was field director of the rescue excavations at Tille Höyük on the Euphrates and published a monograph on the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age levels. In August 1993, Geoffrey inaugurated the Kerkenes Project which he directed for the next 20 years. In 2002 he was awarded an Associate Rolex Award for Enterprise and in 2009 a MBE for services to British Archaeology in Turkey. Coincidentally in 1993 he joined faculty at METU (Middle East Technical University) at Ankara where he stayed until taking up a Senior Research Fellowship at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilisations (RCAC) for 2012-13. This last position permitted completion of two volumes on the remote sensing survey and excavations at Kerkenes. His publications cover not only the archaeology of the Ancient Near East but include also post-medieval archaeology and heritage in Mauritius. Since 2002 Geoffrey has conducted research in Mauritius, where he has been based since retirement, and is involved in several heritage projects, one of which is survey and excavations at Powder Mills.

Jean Yves Le Lan, Retired engineer
French East India Company, Intercontinental Museum of Slavery
Jean-Yves Le Lan est un ancien ingénieur en construction navale qui s’implique dans les recherches sur la Compagnie des Indes française. Il a publié aussi de nombreux ouvrages sur Lorient et le Morbihan aux éditions Sutton. Il a été associé au CRSI depuis 2010 et a participé au Slave Trade Database. Président du Groupement des associations d’histoire locale du Pays de Lorient et du Comité d’histoire du Pays de Plœmeur.
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Rafaël Thiébaut, Doctoral Student, Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Univ. of Amsterdam
European Slave trade Madagascar 17th -18th centuries
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Doorga Ujodha, University of Mauritius Press
Digital History Project
 
Thomas Vernet, Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/IMAF
Slave trade database, Inventory of slavery and slave trade Intercontinental Museum of Slavery
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Nigel Worden, King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town
 
Benigna Zimba, Eduardo Mondlane University
‘Origins’ Project (Mozambique), Intercontinental Museum of Slavery

Satyendra Peerthum is Historian at the Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund (AGTF) which manages the Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site. He holds a B.A Hons (1st class) in History from the University of Cape Town, an M.A with distinction in History from the University of Mauritius. His areas of interest include the history and heritage of indentured labour, slavery, Liberated Africans, the history of Port Louis and labour movements. He has been a part-time lecturer in History at the University of Mauritius since 2002. In 2011 and 2014, he coordinated 2 international indentured labour conferences. He has worked as a research consultant for the Truth and Justice Commission, the Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture and the National Heritage Fund of Fund. He has published several books and pamphlets: namely From Captivity to Freedom (on the Liberated Africans of the Aapravasi Ghat) andForbidden Freedom (on the vagrants of the Vagrant Depot).His latest publications include ‘The Struggle of the Descendants of the Indentured Labourers in Early Modern Mauritius, 1921-1945’ and ‘Antoinette Sugar Estate and the lives of its indentured workers.