Armed Black Man in the Antebellum South
Rosalyn Narayan
Doctoral Researcher, School of Comparative American Studies, History Department
Supervisor: Professor Tim Lockley
R dot Narayan at warwick dot ac dot uk
PhD Project:
Slavery in Print: Slaveholding Ideology and Anxiety in Antebellum Southern Newspapers, 1830-1860
Publications
Rosalyn Narayan (2018) ‘Creating insurrections in the heart of our country:’ fear of the British West India Regiments in the Southern US Press, 1839–1860, Slavery & Abolition, 39:3, 497-517, DOI: 10.1080/0144039X. 2018.1489796
Education
- PhD in American History (currently writing-up) University of Warwick
Thesis: ‘Slavery in Print: Slaveholding Ideology and Anxiety in Antebellum Southern Newspapers, 1830-1860’
AHRC funded as part of the ‘Africa’s Sons Under Arms’ project; a collaboration between the University of Warwick and the British Library
- MPhil in Medieval History, University of Birmingham, 2013
Thesis: “The Balances of Power: Peasant Women’s Agency and Status in mid-thirteenth to later-fourteenth-century Norton”
Funding: AHRC BGP Research Preparation Masters Award
- BA Hons, Medieval and Modern History, University of Birmingham, 2011
Grants and Fellowships
British Library Eccles Centre Postgraduate Research Fellow 2017
British Research Council Fellow 2016, John W Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., AHRC International Placement Scheme
Impact Activities
Secondary school teaching resource on race and slavery as part of the British Library’s ‘West India Regiments’ teaching resource, November 2017:
“Why did people oppose the creation of the West India Regiments?”
https://www.bl.uk/west-india-regiment/articles/why-did-people-oppose-the-creation-of-the-west-india-regiments