Publications
Academic and Popular Writing
Books
*Winner of the Gold Medal for World History in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards
*Named an "Essential Academic Title" by Choice Magazine and a Choice Editors' pick for January 2019.
Recent Popular Essays
Journal Articles
Book Chapters and Essays
- A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica ( Yale University Press, 2018)
*Winner of the Gold Medal for World History in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards
*Named an "Essential Academic Title" by Choice Magazine and a Choice Editors' pick for January 2019.
- Co-editor with Gregory D. Smithers, Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
Recent Popular Essays
- “The White Nostalgia Fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ Backlash,” The Washington Post. July 8, 2019. *Reissued by The History News Network, The Salt Lake Tribune, & Tulsa World
- “Uncovering Royal Perspectives on Slavery, Empire, and the Rights of Colonial Subjects," Georgian Papers Programme Website. January 21, 2019. *Reissued by Uncommon Sense—the Blog.
- "The Long History Behind the Racist Attacks on Serena Williams." The Washington Post. September 11, 2018.
Journal Articles
- "Contesting 'Black' Liberty and Subjecthood in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1730s-1780s,"Slavery & Abolition, Vol. 32, No. 2 (June 2011): 169-183.
- "Trinidad--Beneath the Surface: A Conversation with Elizabeth Nunez," Sargasso, 25th Anniversary Issue (May 2011): 235-246.
- "Gender, Sexuality, and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World," Gender & History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (November 2010): 585-602.
Book Chapters and Essays
- “Interracial Marriage in the Atlantic World,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History (Oxford University Press; fall 2017).
- "Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent," in Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, ed. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 109-149.
- “Historical Perspective: Slavery Over the Centuries,” in Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Mary C. Burke (New York: Routledge, 2013), 24-47.
