I would welcome inquiries from students interested broadly in Atlantic World History, but especially the themes of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, cross-cultural trade, and economic history.

I am a historian of the Atlantic World, with a particular focus on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. My current book project examines slave-trading merchants in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and shows how their profit-motivated decisions shaped the experiences of the enslaved people who they bought and sold. I am a co-manager of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded project Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, a digital memorial to the 12.5 million Africans who were forcibly transported through the slave trade. I am also developing a digital model of a slave ship, and a database of British slave trading merchants, including several thousand individuals in north-west England. 

I convene an undergraduate module “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1865” (HIST241) and will be convening seminars in “Histories of Violence: How Imperialism made the Modern World” (HIST105).