About
I am an historian of modern Britain and I joined the History Department here in the summer of 2012. Since then, I have served as co-director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery until 2015 and helped set up a project to help students improve their writing skills. I am a member of the University Board of Discipline and I have been elected as a Faculty member of the University Senate for 2013-15 and now 2015-18. I am a member of Liverpool University Press's Editorial Board and I edit their series Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, alongside Mark Smith (University of South Carolina).
From 2008-2010, I taught and undertook research as a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer in History at Yale University, before spending two years as a lecturer at Plymouth University. I researched my doctorate at St. Catherine's and St. Anne's colleges, University of Oxford, and studied for my BA and Master's degrees at St. Anne's. My DPhil thesis examined British anti-slavery politics after West Indian emancipation.
Prizes or Honours
- Whitfield Prize, proxime accessit (Royal Historical Society, 2013)
- Alexander Prize (Royal Historical Society, 2011)