I arrived at SHU in 2016, throughout a roundabout route that has taken me to Aberdeen, Philadelphia, York, London and Hull.

I'm the Head of the Humanities Research centre and I also teach across the undergraduate programme.

I'm a historian of the 18th-century British empire in Atlantic, and I work especially of issues of enslavement and emancipation in the Caribbean and I've published widely in this area. Once upon a time I was a museum curator and I've written on questions relating to enslavement and public histories and identities.

My current work concentrates on islands and what their experiences tell us about how empires functioned. My next book (with John McAleer at Southampton) - on Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail - will be published by Oxford University Press in June 2021.