Manuel Barcia (born 1972, Havana) is Chair of Global History at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom.
[6] Barcia is one of a group of scholars who have been engaged in ongoing debates about the legacies of empires worldwide.
[8][9] In 2014 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History, given every year to researchers whose work "has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising".
[10] In 2021 his book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, won the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize awarded annually by the Journal of Global Slavery to the foremost major scholarly work in the field of global slavery.
[11] It was announced on 13 February 2025 that Prof Barcia will become the University of Bath’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global), following approval by Council with the support of Senate.