Advisory Board
Chair of Advisory Board
Tirthankar Roy
Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
Members
Jorge Flores
Coordinator Researcher, Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT)
Anne Gerritsen
Professor, Global History and Culture Centre, Department of History, University of Warwick
Jos Gommans
Professor of Colonial and Global History, Institute of History, University of Leiden
Prasannan Parthasarati
Professor and Chairperson of the Department, Department of History, Boston College
Anjana Singh
Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer), University of Groningen
Lakshmi Subramanian
Professor of History, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Trevor Burnard (1960-2024) was a member of the CAPASIA Advisory Board until his death in July 2024. He was Professor of History at the University of Hull, where he was the Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. A specialist in the history of the Atlantic world, Trevor was a key figure in the study of enslavement and slave plantations. His many books include Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewoode and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004); Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020); Writing the History of Global Slavery (2023); and Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (2023).