Avi­va Ben-Ur is Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Juda­ic and Near East­ern Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts Amherst, where she holds adjunct sta­tus in the Depart­ment of His­to­ry and in the Pro­grams of Span­ish and Por­tuguese, and Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture. She is the author of Jew­ish Auton­o­my in a Slave Soci­ety: Suri­name in the Atlantic World (Philadel­phia: Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Press, 2020).