Research interests
Decolonising Heritage
Migration to, through and from Britain
Jewish history
Diasporas in the Atlantic world
Slavery
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)
Previous PhD students who I have supervised are:
* 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)
* Lauren Darwin, 'Convict transportation in the age of Abolition, 1787-1807 ' (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)
* 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)