Before joining Victoria University in 1999, Steve taught at Drake University (1993-94) and the University of Northern Iowa (1994-95). In 1996-97 he was a Visiting Scholar at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, and in 1997-98 he was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University.
Steve is an Academic Associate at the Wilberforce Institute for the History for Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull.
Research Areas Steve wrote his MA thesis and PhD dissertation on the 18th Century British slave trade and has expertise in the following research areas:
- transatlantic slave trade - maritime history - Atlantic history - pre-colonial African history - Caribbean histoBefore joining Victoria University in 1999, Steve taught at Drake University (1993-94) and the University of Northern Iowa (1994-95). In 1996-97 he was a Visiting Scholar at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, and in 1997-98 he was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University.
Steve is an Academic Associate at the Wilberforce Institute for the History for Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull.
Research Areas Steve wrote his MA thesis and PhD dissertation on the 18th Century British slave trade and has expertise in the following research areas:
- transatlantic slave trade - maritime history - Atlantic history - pre-colonial African history - Caribbean history - medical history - British Empire
Current Research Steve is currently writing a series of essays on Liverpool, the slave trade, and Atlantic history (for Liverpool University Press), and is working on a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded (2010-2012) project on Liverpool's maritime history, 1700-1850.
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