Elizabeth’s scholarship explores the praxes of freedom that have been made possible or foreclosed as a result of social struggles in the post-emancipation “Black Atlantic” – through research and public interventions into the histories of work, racism and popular culture in Brazil, the Caribbean, Britain and the United States.
Elizabeth received her PhD in History from the University of Chicago. She has held fellowships at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation (UCL), the Institute of the Americas (UCL), the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (University of Liverpool) and the Centre for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (University of Chicago).
Elizabeth has taught at universities in the U.S. and the U.K. – including the University of Chicago, Florida International University, the University of Nottingham and University College London. She approaches teaching as a process of mutual learning and transformation. And believes that education, in the tradition of Paulo Freire, should be a practice of liberation.
Selected Exhibitions
Sowing Roots, the Garden Museum, 2021.
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land, the British Library, 2018.
Selected Publications
“Mulatto,” “Pardo,” “Quilombo dos Palmares” and “Sugar Industry,” South America: from European Contact to Independence, H. Micheal Tarver and Carlos Marquez eds., Santa Barbara: ABL-CIO/Bloomsbury, forthcoming Summer 2024.
“Playing Against Empire,” Slavery & Abolition, Volume 39, Issue 3, 2018.
“The Conundrum of Race: Retooling Inequality,” The Caribbean: A History of the Region and its People, Stephan Palmié and Francisco Scarano eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
