Interim Director of the Wilberforce Institute, Dr Nicholas Evans, introduces a new initiative to honour the legacy of Professor Trevor Burnard.
Following the sad death of our Director, Professor Trevor Burnard, his family asked us to establish a fund that will continue Trevor's important work on the history of slavery and its legacies. Our colleagues in the University of Hull Development and Alumni team have established a fund in Trevor's name, that will be used to help scholarly exchange, advance archival research and writing on areas of Atlantic slavery and abolition.
The Trevor Burnard Fund will foster the next generation of scholars by supporting PhD students and Early Career Researchers at Hull to conduct research, deliver conference presentations and publish their work. It will also enable international scholars to bring their learning and diverse perspectives to the Wilberforce Institute. Chosen by a team of Trevor’s academic colleagues, recipients will focus on historical topics reflecting Trevor’s own academic interests – slavery, abolition and human rights – and demonstrate his commitment to scholarly interchange and bridging communities and cultures.
To donate, and help others to build upon Trevor's remarkable legacy, please visit the University of Hull's online giving page. Please contact the Development and Alumni team (alumni@hull.ac.uk) with questions or for more information on the fund.
A world-leading historian, Trevor undertook critical research focused on Atlantic and imperial history and slavery in the Caribbean, America and Africa during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Trevor joined the University of Hull as Director of the Wilberforce Institute in 2019, continuing his career-long interest in plantation societies in the Americas and their impact on global economic systems and connections to eighteenth-century modernity.
Find out more about the life and legacy of Professor Trevor Burnard.