Role
Lecturer in History
History Admissions Tutor
Qualifications & background
Degrees
DPhil in History (St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford)
MSt in Historical Research (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford)
MA (Oxon) in Modern History (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford)
Academic Positions
Lecturer in History, University of Plymouth (2010 - present)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Yale University (2008 - 10)
Professional membership
Royal Historical Society, Member
The Historical Association, Member
British Scholar Society, Member
Higher Education Association, Member
Teaching interests
My teaching interests range acrosss Modern British history and Britain's relationship with the wider world. I am particularly keen to teach on the histories of slavery and abolition, political representation, and consumption and politics, in addition to our historiography and methods module.
At Plymouth, I am teaching or have taught:
HIST 151 'What is History?'
HIST 149 'Culture, Society and Politics in Britain, 1640-1990'
HIST 150 'Revolutions and Revolutionaries'
HIST 260 'Research Methods in Political History'
HIST3XX 'British Slavery and Abolition'.
HIST 362 'Dissertation'
Research interests
I am interested in British history since 1776, specialising in the history of anti-slavery before 1901. My first book, Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and the Victorians, examines British foreign, imperial and economic policy and the political culture of anti-slavery in the period 1837-1901. It will be published by Cornell University Press in 2012. With Robert Burroughs (Leeds Metropolitan University), I am editing a collection of essays entitled Naval Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade for Manchester University Press's 'Studies in Imperialism' series.
In a new research project, I am turning my attention to the campaigns for slave trade abolition and West Indian emancipation, c. 1776-1833. Besides the micro-politics of abolitionism and popular mobilisation, I have investigated the role of providential theology in providing a non-economic form of material interest in the national campaign against slavery.
Arising from a 2010 conference I organised, I am co-editing with Steven Pincus a collection of essays on Pressure and Parliament: Politics from Civil War to Civil Society as part of the 'Parliamentary History Texts and Studies' series for Blackwell.
I am also publishing essays in various edited collections, on topics ranging from Gladstone to Anglo-American democratic exchanges.
Grants & contracts
Visiting research fellow (2011), Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Abolition & Resistance
Alexander prize (2010), Royal Historical Society
Publications
Article
‘Free trade, free labour and slave sugar in Victorian Britain’, The Historical Journal, 53, no. 2 (June 2010), pp. 359-79. [
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Reference works entries
‘Louis Chamerovzow’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 27 May 2010 update). [ODNB - subscription access online]
Review
Review of C.L. Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006) in Journal of the Oxford University History Society (Winter 2008-09). [Open access online]
Conferences organised
Organiser, Pressure and Parliament Conference, Yale University, US (2010)
Co-organiser, British Anti-slavery Workshop, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK (2009)
Other academic activities
Interview, BBC History Magazine podcast, November 2011.
Additional information
My personal webpage contains details of recent and forthcoming talks, lectures and seminar papers, as well as more information on my research and teaching interests.
Links
www.richardhuzzey.org.uk
www.academia.edu profile for Richard Huzzey
