Richard Follett

Associate Vice President and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (International)

‘AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF GEORGE FLOYD: Lessons from History, Action for the Future’

Professor Richard Follett is Associate Vice President and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) at the University of Sussex. He is responsible for developing, coordinating, and driving the University’s internationalisation strategy, and provides leadership to Sussex’s international activities worldwide. He is also Professor of American History and a specialist on the history of slavery and emancipation in the United States and Caribbean. Prior to joining Sussex, Follett taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He completed his PhD at Louisiana State University on a Fulbright scholarship, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, Nanjing and Beijing universities in China, and at Heidelberg University in Germany. With more than a decade of senior university leadership in the field of international education, Richard Follett is Chair of Universities UK International Africa Network (representing all 140 UK universities in Africa) and serves on the international steering committee of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, Higher Education, and Sustainable Development Goals Network.