Ivie Orobaton is a Researcher and Exhibition Specialist for the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture actively working on the “In Slavery’s Wake” exhibition project. She holds a B.A. from the College of William and Mary with a double major in History and Anthropology. Her undergraduate research was centered around health and racism; her Honors Thesis, White Plague, White City: Landscape and the Racialization of Tuberculosis in Washington, D.C. from 1846 to 1960, sought to explain how the intellectual rhetoric around racism and health in the 19th century impacted access to tuberculosis treatment and living spaces inhabited by African Americans in Washington, D.C. Her current research primarily focuses on French colonialism and slavery in West Africa, the French Antilles, and the French Indian Ocean colonies.
