Real name: 

Primary Discipline

Primary Discipline: 

  • Humanities

Further Specification: 

History
Secondary Discipline

Secondary Discipline: 

  • HumanitiesArts

Further Specification: 

American Studies

Biography: 

I’m a UK-based historian and writer. My first book "Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean" (The University of Pennsylvania Press: 2020) won the Gilbert Chinard book prize granted by the Society for French Historical Studies. My work engages with issues of citizenship, race, and migration. I have worked in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom and taught American and Caribbean history, European imperialism, and the Atlantic slave trade. I have experience in conference organizing, public engagement, university administration and management. I've also worked at various museums and historical societies on Latin American art collections.
I am now a qualification and assessment specialist at a non-profit organization. I'm responsible for the production, design, and development of national qualifications and assessments.

Current research areas: 

- Migration, race, and citizenship in the Atlantic world especially the right to exit a country.
- Revolutions
- Legal history
- African diaspora
- International relations
- Political transnational movements
- Slave trade

Recent scholarly activity: 

Interviewed for the podcast New Books Network https://newbooksnetwork.com/rogue-revolutionaries

Recent publications: 

"Protecting foreigners: the refugee crisis on the Belize - Yucatán border, 1847–1871," fLaw and History Review 39: 1 (2021): 69-95
Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Winnder of the Chinard best book prize, Society of French Historical Studies
“Going home: the back-to-Haiti movement in the early nineteenth century.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 16: 2 (2019): 184-202

Forthcoming research: 

Other activities: 

Creator of online resource on Black British history: https://pathswaters.wixsite.com/tyne

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