Lewis Twiby

Email: Lewis.Twiby@warwick.ac.uk

Research

I specialise in the history of borders, human rights, and movements of marginalised communities. My current project is looking at state-building and community identity in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua on the the US-Mexico border from 1917 to 1959. My supervisors for this project are Dr Rosie DoyleLink opens in a new window and Professor Ben Smith. My main avenue of research is the history of Mexico, the United States, and Latin America, although I have also looked at colonial and post-independence East Africa. I also write a blog twice a week where I can investigate topics that I do not specialise in, this blog covers world history, mythologies and religion, and natural history.

Education

• October 2023-Present: PhD History, University of Warwick
• September 2019-September 2020: MSc Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh
• September 2015-July 2019: MA History, University of Edinburgh

Publications

• My blog, Lewis Twiby's Past and Present, lewisrhystwiby.wordpress.com
• 'Tourism and the State in Northern Mexico, 1900-1950', Global History and Culture Centre Blog, (12/02/2025)
• 'Imprisoned in the Margins: Prisons in Colonial Africa', Retrospect Journal, 'Margins', 26, (2020), 8-9
• 'Zimbabwe After Mugabe', Retrospect Journal, 'Celebrations and Commemorations', 25, (2019), 21-23
• 'The League Against Imperialism: Interwar Anti-Colonial Internationalism', Retrospect Journal
• 'Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, and Women's Power in Sudan', Retrospect Journal
• 'New York and the LGBTQ+ Community Over a Century', Retrospect Journal
• 'Railways, Race, and Lions - The Tale of the Tsavo Man-Eaters', Retrospect Journal
• 'La Llorona: Folklore, Spirits, Colonialism, and Power', Retrospect Journal

Conference Papers

• Forthcoming, 'Magonismo, the Mexican Revolution, and the Legacies of Transborder Solidarity', Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities, (November 2025)
• 'A Saint in El Paso: Santa Teresa, Politics, and the U.S.-Mexican border during the 1890s', BrANCH Conference, (September 2025)
• 'Todos Comen Steak: Mexican-American Positionality and Identity in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border region during the mid-twentieth century', Being Human Conference, University of Warwick, (February 2025)
• 'Tourism and Vice in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, c.1916-1954', Warwick History Work in Progress, (November 2024)
• 'Tourism and Nation-Building along the US-Mexican Border, 1900-1952', Warwick History Postgraduate Conference, (2024)

Conference Organisation

• Terrifier Conference, (May 2025)
• Warwick Postgraduate Conference, (May 2024)