Dr Nicholas Evans

Dr Nicholas Evans

Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Summary

Dr Nicholas J Evans is Senior Lecturer in diaspora history at the School of Humanities. He is also an academic in the Queen's Anniversary Prize-winning Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull.

He uses the fruits of his academic research on voluntary and coerced migration to, through and from Britain to empower religious and ethnic minority communities both at home and abroad.

Aspects of his academic research on migration are on permanent display in museums in Antwerp, Cape Town, Hull, London, and Southampton. He is presently co-investigator of the AHRC 'Remember Me: The Changing Face of Memorialisation in the UK'.

I presently teach on a number of undergraduate modules:

* A History of Freedom (Level 4)

* Global Britain and its Past (Level 5)

* Gandhi to Mandela: The rise and fall of Apartheid in South Africa (Level 6)

* Memory, Meaning and History (Level 7)

In addition I founded and direct the Hull History Network

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Imposing Identity: Death Markers to 'English' People in Barbados, 1627–1838

Evans, N. (2020). Imposing Identity: Death Markers to ‘English’ People in Barbados, 1627–1838. In N. Evans, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (52-80). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain

Evans, N. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffmann, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain (224 - 234). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959-26

'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945

Evans, N. J., & McCarthy, A. (2018). 'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945. In T. M. Devine, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), New Scots: Scotland's Immigrant Communities since 1945. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain

Evans, N. J. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffman, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes (224-234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959

A staging post to America - Jewish migration via Scotland

Evans, N. J. (2018). A staging post to America - Jewish migration via Scotland. In K. Collins, A. Newman, & B. Wasserstein (Eds.), Two hundred years of Scottish Jewry (301-326). Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Centre

Research interests

Migration to, through and from Britain

Jewish history

Diasporas

Slavery

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Taking The Knee

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£3,000.00

Started

1 February 2023

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy - from the hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£87,300.00

Started

4 January 2022

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

I presently supervise the following PhD students:

* Laura Birkinshaw, 'The rose of water in disease transmission and inhibition in the transatlantic slave trade' (funded by Leverhulme Trust)

* Lewis Carter, 'Disconnected communities and their perception of heritage-led regeneration in marginal post-industrial port cities - Hull, Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth' (funded by the ESRC)

* Ryan Clarke, 'Memorialising Pandemics' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Lance Parker, 'Survivalists: Communities and kinship in enslaved and Maroon societies during the 17th and 18th centuries in South Carolina and the Caribbean' (funded by the University of Hull)

* James Baker, 'Home Children 1920s to 1960s: a study of the exploitation of British children subject to forced emigration' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Frank Grombir, 'Second-generation Polish and Ukrainian identities in the North of England after 1945' (funded by the University of Hull)

Previous PhD students who I have supervised are:

* Rebecca Nelson, 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums' (funded by the AHRC)

* Lauren Darwin, 'Convict transportation in the age of Abolition, 1787-1807 ' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Ryan Hanley, 'Social and commercial influences on early black writing in Britain, 1770-1830' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Samuel North, 'Reclaiming the Islamic legacies of anti-slavery in the post-Apartheid Cape, South Africa' (funded by the AHRC)

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