Rate My Professor Zoe Trodd

Professor Zoe Trodd is Professor of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the School of Politics and International Relations within the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Nottingham, where she also serves as Director of the Rights Lab, a university Beacon of Excellence. She earned her PhD and MA from Harvard University and her BA from the University of Cambridge. Before joining the University of Nottingham as a professor in 2012, she held positions including Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, ACLS/Mellon Fellow, research fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, research fellow at Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and taught at Columbia University. Previously, she was Professor of American Literature in the Department of American and Canadian Studies and founding co-Executive Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights.

Professor Trodd's research focuses on strategies to end global slavery by 2030, slavery and anti-slavery movements, anti-slavery methods, slavery survivor narratives, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on efforts to tackle modern slavery. She regularly advises governments and NGOs on modern slavery and antislavery research and has held several grants related to antislavery techniques. Her key publications include Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015, with John Stauffer and Celeste-Marie Bernier, W.W. Norton), Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide (2011, with Kevin Bales and Alex Kent Williamson, Oneworld), The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid (2012, edited with John Stauffer, Harvard University Press), Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management (2015, Supply Chain Management), and A Full Freedom: Contemporary Survivors’ Definitions of Slavery (2018, with Andrea Nicholson and Minh Dang, Human Rights Law Review). She has been recognized as one of the UK Top 100 Modern Slavery Influencers and one of Nottinghamshire's inspirational women. Through her leadership of the Rights Lab, she contributes to global efforts to address contemporary slavery.