Academic background & work
A condensed version of my CV, current as of July 2026.
Research Assistant and Lecturer
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
PhD, History
University of Bonn, Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
MA, Global History
Free University of Berlin | Humboldt University of Berlin
BA, History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition fellowship
Yale University
“Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World: Gender, Trauma, and Trafficking in Transcultural Perspective (1500-1800)”
Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme
Journal Articles
“‘The Plantation and Land Which Was Hers Before’: Power and Possession in Barbados, 1680-1750”
Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, LXIX, 1-27
Edited Volumes
“Environmental Labor and Subterranean Marronage: A Deep History of the Barbadian Gully, 1660-1760”
Enslaved Environments: New Histories of Slavery and Nature in the Atlantic World, edited by Justin Roberts and Andrew Isenberg, University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming
Conferences Organized
“Children, Dependency, and Emotions in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800: Archival and Visual Narratives”
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Sep. 12–14
Panels Organized
“On Archives, Alternative Archives, and the Epistemology of the Detail”
Workshop with Claudia Jarzebowski and Ann Laura Stoler, BCDSS, Sep. 12
“Plantations and Other Forms of Mass Coercion”
Roundtable co-organized with Ulbe Bosma, BCDSS, Nov. 24
“Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World”
Workshop, BCDSS, Oct. 16–18
Papers Presented
“Sustaining Place: Gender, Property, and the Integrated Plantation, 1640-1740”
Graduate Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Sep. 19
“‘In Case the Said Molley Shall Refuse to Bind or Suffer to be Bound’: Sustaining Place in the Atlantic World of Slavery and Dependency, 1640-1740”
Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain, King’s College London, Jun. 25–26
“A New Course to the Sea: A Deep History of the Barbadian Gully and the Integrated Plantation”
Multilingual Connections and Under-represented Geographies, 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Jun. 1–5
“Mapping the Barbadian Gully and Environment of the Atlantic Plantation, 1640-1848”
Symposium on Slavery and the Environment in the Atlantic World, University of Kansas, May 16–17
“Orphans in an Infant Society: Crises and Dependency in Early Barbados, 1640-1730”
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Seminar Series (CRMS), Monash University, Mar. 15