Degree(s)

BA History (University of Oxford); MSc History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (University of Oxford); DPhil History (University of Oxford)

Research interests

I am a historian of the Caribbean and its diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I'm currently working on two main projects: a comparative history of anti-colonial political thought in five Caribbean islands – Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, and Guadeloupe – from c.1914 to 1939; and an introduction to Black British history for a general audience, Black British History: A Very Short Introduction (under contract with Oxford University Press).

My published research has touched on a variety of issues: from race, gender, and citizenship in the early twentieth-century Caribbean to the politics of institutional 'legacies of slavery' reports. One article won the French History Article Prize for 2021.

Teaching Interests

At the undergraduate level, I lecture and supervise for a number of papers. For first years (Part IA), I co-convene O7: Modern Britain and Ireland, 1750 to the present, and teach a source-based paper about Black British art, music, and culture - S12: Becoming Black Britain.

For second years (Part IB), my Caius colleague Sujit Sivasundaram and I co-convene T12: British Worlds, 1750-1919. 

I run an Advanced Topic paper for third years (Part II) - AT25: Black British Histories, c.1750-2000 - and supervise dissertations across a wide range of topics. I also provide some teaching for Historical Thinking in Caius. 

At the postgraduate level, I supervise MPhil and PhD dissertations, mostly on Black British or modern Caribbean topics.