Contributors

Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and is the cofounder of Timestamp Media. His most recent book is Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020), which has won eight book prizes.Nathan H. Dize is an assistant professor of French at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is working on two book projects: one focuses on mourning in Haitian literature, and another on African American translators of francophone literature. He translates Caribbean fiction and poetry by Jean D’Amérique, Adlyne Bonhomme, Néhémy Dahomey, Kettly Mars, Makenzy Orcel, Ketty Steward, and Lyonel Trouillot, among others. He is a founding member of the Kwazman Vwa Collective.Malcom Ferdinand earned a degree in environmental engineering from University College London and a doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He works as a researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). His research explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. He is the author of Une écologie décoloniale: Penser l’ecologie depuis le monde caribéen (2019), translated by Anthony Paul Smith as Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (2021); and S’aimer la Terre: Défaire l’habiter colonial (2024), a comprehensive study of the pesticide contamination of Martinique and Guadeloupe.Racheal Fulford is an instructor of Latinx studies and Spanish at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on contemporary Latina narrative voices in prose, poetry, and digital spaces. She also investigates the roles of religion and gender in several genres, including general fiction, horror, and life writing.Florian Gargaillo is an associate professor of English at Austin Peay State University, Clarkson, Tennessee. He is the author of Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech (2023) and Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg (2025). His essays have appeared in such venues as Modern Language Quarterly, Essays in Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literature, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. He currently serves as the president of the Wallace Stevens Society.Daniel Goudrouffe (whose work also appears on the cover of this issue) is a photographer who embraces a documentary and humanist approach, with a particular focus on the social realities of the Caribbean. Through a black-and-white aesthetic rooted in analog photography, he offers a sensitive and engaged perspective on the enduring legacies of slavery and colonialism. Since 2015, he has expanded his practice by exploring alternative and historical printing processes, particularly through his seascape series. His work has been exhibited in France, at the Kreyòl Factory, Paris; in Guadeloupe, where he was a guest of honor at the Mémorial ACTe museum, Pointe-à-Pitre; and in French Guiana, during the Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane festival, Cayenne.Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and the chair of the Centre of the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London. She has written extensively on the history of Britain, gender, and empire, including Family Fortunes (1987), coauthored with Leonore Davidoff; Civilising Subjects (2002); Macaulay and Son (2012); and, with others, Legacies of British Slave-ownership (2014). From 2009 to 2016 she was principal investigator on the Legacies of British Slavery project: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs. Her latest book is Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024).Ryan Cecil Jobson is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago (2024). He serves on the editorial committee of Small Axe and as co-editor-in-chief of Transforming Anthropology.Walter Johnson teaches history at Harvard University. He is the author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2001), River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Capitalism in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom (2017), and The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and The Violent History of the United States (2021). The Lord Is a Man of War, about the life and times of John Brown, will be published in 2026.Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002) and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2010). His essays have appeared in, among others, The Nation, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, American Quarterly, and the Boston Review, for which he serves as contributing editor.Sophie Large is an associate professor at the Université de Tours and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on the representation of LGBTQI+ subjectivities, Indigenousness, and Afro-descendance in contemporary Central American and Caribbean literature. She has edited many books, including Le Fanon des artistes: Perspectives transaméricaines (2022) and Fantología precolonial en la literatura y las artes: Diálogos transatlánticos entre Canarias y el Caribe (siglos xix–xxi) (2025).Jennifer L. Morgan is the Silver Family Professor of History in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University. She is the author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (2021), which won the Mary Nickliss Prize in Women’s History from the Organization of American Historians and the Frederick Douglass Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. She is also the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2004). She is the recipient of a 2024 MacArthur Award.Alex A. Moulton is an assistant professor of geography and environmental science at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), and a member of the faculty in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program and the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies program at the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY. His research examines Black geographies, ecological justice, community resource governance, landscape legacies of colonization, and political ecology of environmental change.John P. Sloan is a PhD candidate in the Literatures in English Department at Rutgers University– New Brunswick. His research focuses on early African American literature, with a particular focus on religion and poetry.Sasha Turner is an associate professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (2017). Her current book focuses on slavery and emotions.Kathleen Wilson is a Distinguished Professor of History at Stony Brook University and writes about the ethnohistories, identities, and cultures of Britain and the British Empire in the long eighteenth century. Her work has won prizes and support from the Royal Historical Society, the North American Conference on British Studies, the American Society of Ethnohistory, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Her current project, titled “Fighting Men: Empire, Atrocity, and Masculinity in the Age of Revolutions,” explores the choreographies of violence across British imperial domains.