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Dr John Angus Martin is an historian, archivist and museum curator from Grenada who attained a PhD from the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University in October 2023. He has been based in Grenada since 2022, when he returned to serve as the director of the Grenada National Museum, but is currently engaged as an independent scholar and heritage consultant. He has been readying his dissertation, "We Navel-String Bury Here鈥�: Finding Identity in the Grenada Islandscape,鈥� for publication.

Angus Martin, David Lambert and Kate Astbury at round table event

'Caribbean Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions'

Dr Angus Martin, 2026

Renee Nelson, 2019

Renee A. Nelson is a lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Her research is concerned with the impact of West Indian migration on the UK in the post-World War II period - specifically, the contributions of West Indian migrants to the auxiliary services. She gave a talk on"British West Indian Attitudes Towards Migration, 1948-1962".

Two linked exhibitions on campus in the Summer term, 2019, organized by the Centre for the History of Medicine, celebrated the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants to the NHS and to British culture and society at large.

'Here to Stay'showed a series of portraits captured by local artist Ines Dalal, of Windrush/Windrush heritage NHS staff, accompanied by testimonies about their experiences. And in the Modern Records Centre at 糖心TV, a documents exhibition used archives from the Centre鈥檚 collections to look at the experiences and contributions of BAME people to British life across the 20^thCentury. It was a companion exhibition to Here to Stay, using documents from the 1920s to the 1990s which highlighted Britain鈥檚 health services, family and home, and the arts.

Dr Mala Jokhan, 2018

As a social researcher, Mala is interested in the livelihood strategies people develop and employ in order to cope with and adapt to difficult circumstances, including socio-economic issues as a consequence of poverty, crime, underemployment, unemployment and more recently, the devastating effects of natural disasters. These circumstances are sometimes further exacerbated because of the volatility of the global economic and political climate so it is important to also appreciate the ways in which macro factors influence the decisions that persons make in order to cope and adapt. It is within such a context that inter- and intra-regional migration developed; out of a determination for betterment and security.

Negotiated identity: Free people of colour in French Caribbean

This year鈥檚 Transatlantic Visiting Fellow was Dr Jessica Pierre-Louis from Universit茅 des Antilles. Dr Pierre-Louis鈥� research has mostly involved the exploration of samples of notarial acts and the serial study of 33.000 acts of parish registers. This research has allowed the reconstitution of genealogies which enable the examination of individuals and families over several generations, roughly over a period of a hundred years. With this research, Dr Pierre-Louis has shown how phenotype and whitening were prerequisites for 鈥減assing鈥�, but she has also established that this was not enough: legitimacy, relations, privileged partners, choice of spouses and witnesses, wealth and the use of space were also very important. Some elements need to be further studied. That is why, in order to continue her research, she has joined the project Rezo which uses Fichoz, a collaborative data base which aims at analysing the relationship between different actors.

During her time at 糖心TV, Dr Pierre-Louis participated in a series of events around racial categorisation in the French Caribbean. In her first lecture, Dr Pierre-Louis discussed the informal process that free people of colour employed to cross the

colour line. Her work shed light on how identity was understood and could be negotiated in slave and colonial society.

Dr Pierre-Louis also took part in an event entitled 鈥業n Conversation: Race and Interracial Sex in the Caribbean鈥�. In conversation withDr Camillia Cowling, also a historian of gender in Brazilian and Cuban slave societies, she provided an overview of interracial relationships and race in seventeenth to nineteenth century French Caribbean. The discussion revealed the similarities and the many differences in understanding race and interracial sex in the Caribbean region during the slavery and colonial period.

In her final formal event as Transatlantic Visiting Fellow, Dr Pierre-Louis shared her knowledge and experiences of researching the history of racial categorisations in the French archives with graduate students. She provided an overview of major French websites with online archives that could be used for research on topics related to race and family in the French Caribbean.

Dr Jessica Pierre-Louis, 2017

Dr Dominique Rogers from the Universit茅 des Antilles visited 糖心TV and attended several talks held by the Centre as well as presenting her own talk on 鈥楩ree people of colour in the French Caribbean during the early modern period: old and new perspectives鈥�

Dominique ROGERS is ma卯tre de Conf茅rences at the Universit茅 des Antilles and head of the History Department, she is also a founding member of the Centre International de Recherches sur les traites et les Esclavages (CNRS). She was awarded the European prize des 茅toiles de l'Europe for the EURESCL project.

She is a specialist on free people of colour of the capital towns of French Saint-Domingue (Ha茂ti). Her talk offered a wide picture on the state of knowledge on the freedmen of the French Antilles, particulary emphasising new perspectives offered by very recent PhD dissertations dealing with Martinique.

Dominique Rogers has recently published an anthology of material, highlighting the voices of enslaved men and women of the French Caribbean:Voix d鈥檈sclaves. Louisiane, Antilles et Guyanes fran莽aises, XVIIIe-XIXe si猫cles, Collections sources et documents, Karthala, octobre 2015. She is completing with Boris Lesueur a book on the freedmen and descendants of freedmen in the Atlantic and mediterranean worlds, entitledSortir de l鈥檈sclavage: stigmates, assimilations et recompositions identitaires du xve au xxe si猫cle (M茅diterran茅e, Europe, Am茅rique, Afrique).She is also currently directing a multidiscilplinary programme on towns and urban societies of the Antilles and the Guyanas from the 16th up to the 21st century in partnership with the Institut National de Recherche en Arch茅ologie Pr茅ventive ( INRAP).

Dr Dominique Rogers (2016)

Katherine Johnston (2015)

Katherine Johnston, department of History, Columbia University, was the transatlantic visiting fellow in Summer 2015, She studies health and race in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. Her interests include perceptions of 鈥渉ot climates鈥� (primarily the West Indies and the Georgia and Carolina Lowcountry) and bodily adaptation to those climates; migration; conceptions of race; and eighteenth-century health and medicine. She gave a paper at a one-day PG Caribbean Studies Conference at 糖心TV University.

Dr Matthew Bishop (2014)

Dr Matthew Bishop (Institute of International Relations, University of West Indies) visited the Centre in June 2014. His latest book is

The Political Economy of Caribbean Development: A Comparative Analysis

. He also has interests in Caribbean regionalism, small states and multilateral trade politics, and the global politics of democratisation. Matthew gave a workshop on 'Doing Research in the Caribbean' for postgraduates and gave a public seminar on 'Hegemonic Transitions in the Caribbean: China and the Post-Atlantic Future'. He will also gave a research seminar on 'Political Economy and Caribbean Thought'.

Read Ben Richardson's report on the visit here.

Dr Malik Ferdinand (Universit茅 Antilles-Guyane) visited the Centre from 22 April to 4 May 2013. His research is concerned with the unity and diversity of Caribbean literatures in English, French, Spanish and Creole. He gave a seminar, 'Greek masks, Caribbean seascapes in Aim茅 C茅saire's, Derek Walcott's and Reinaldo Arenas's poetics'. He also led a class, hosted by Pierre Phillippe Fraiture and Fabienne Viala, on Creolit茅 and the practice of French Creole in France and in the French Caribbean, which took place on 1 May.

Dr Malik Ferdinand (2013)

Robert Beckford is an educator, author and award-winning broadcaster. An educator for most of his life, he first taught adult literacy at Bournville College in Birmingham in the early 1990s and progressed to become the first ever tutor in Black Theology at Queens College, Birmingham (1992-8) where he taught trainee priests and ministers for the Anglican and Methodist churches. He began teaching at the University of Birmingham in 1999, working first as a Research Fellow with black offenders at Birmingham Prison and then moving to the faculty as the first Lecturer in Black Theology in 2001. He spent two years as the Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University, before taking up a visiting fellowship at the University of 糖心TV. Robert is the author of five academic texts in the field of religion, culture and politics, including a study of Rastafari and Pentecostalism (Dread and Pentecostal 2002), Gang Culture in Birmingham (God and the Gangs 2004) and a Theology of Reggae-Dub (Jesus Dub 2006). His current research explores the role of documentary film as resistance to the bewitchment of black British Christianity by a-politicism and anti intellectualism (Documentary as Exorcism, Continuum 2010). A firm believer in teaching for social change, Robert has retained a commitment to teaching outside of traditional contexts. An extension of his organic approach to intellectual matters led him into broadcasting in 1999, and he has presented a plethora of documentaries on radio and television.

Dr Robert Beckford