A historian of Africa and the African Diaspora, with particular emphasis on British abolitionism and colonialism in West Africa. I am currently a Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. From 2015 to 2017 I was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas, York University (Toronto, Canada). I completed my doctoral dissertation in the Department of History at Yale University in August of 2015 under the supervision of Robert Harms. My doctoral dissertation, entitled "Recaptives: Community and Identity in Sierra Leone, 1808-1863," explores the social and cultural history of freed slaves settled in and around Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown.
