Lyndsey Beutin

Lyndsey P. Beutin is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her research focuses on the politics of the public memory of slavery and contemporary social movements. She is the author of Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice (Duke University Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Emerging Scholar Book Award from the Canadian Communication Association and the 2024 Shepherd Book Prize in the Humanities from McMaster. She has held fellowships at the African American Studies department at Princeton University and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.