Dr Nicholas Evans
| Biography | Dr Nick Evans is Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History and Deputy Director of the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull. His research focusses on voluntary and forced migration around the Atlantic between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. A founding member of the Wilberforce House Museum Advisory Board, he champions work to decolonise heritage and amplify the experiences of Global Majority people living in contemporary Britain. In 2023, he was part of teams that won both the Museums Association’s Decolonising Museums Award and the PraxisAuril KE Award 2023 for supporting Equality Diversity and Inclusion through Knowledge Exchange. Since 2023 he has served on the National Centre for Teaching Black History Educator's Steering Group at the International Slavery Museum. For more information visit: https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/homelands . |
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| Research Interests | Decolonising Heritage Migration to, through and from Britain Jewish history Diasporas in the Atlantic world Slavery |
| Teaching and Learning | I presently teach on a number of undergraduate modules: * A History of Freedom (Level 4) * Global Britain and its Past (Level 5) * Insiders and Outsiders (Level 6) * Memory, Public History and Heritage (Level 7) In addition I founded and direct the Hull History Network |
| ResearcherID | D-7740-2018 |
| Scopus Author ID | 15069466000 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | I presently supervise the following PhD students: * Laura Birkinshaw, 'The rose of water in disease transmission and inhibition in the transatlantic slave trade' (funded by Leverhulme Trust) * Lewis Carter, 'Disconnected communities and their perception of heritage-led regeneration in marginal post-industrial port cities - Hull, Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth' (funded by the ESRC) * Ryan Clarke, 'Memorialising Pandemics' (funded by the University of Hull) * Lance Parker, 'Survivalists: Communities and kinship in enslaved and Maroon societies during the 17th and 18th centuries in South Carolina and the Caribbean' (funded by the University of Hull) Previous PhD students who I have supervised are: * James Baker, 'Home Children 1920s to 1960s: a study of the exploitation of British children subject to forced emigration' (funded by the University of Hull) * Lauren Darwin, 'Convict transportation in the age of Abolition, 1787-1807 ' (funded by the University of Hull) * Frank Grombir, 'Second-generation Polish and Ukrainian identities in the North of England after 1945' (funded by the University of Hull) * Ryan Hanley, 'Social and commercial influences on early black writing in Britain, 1770-1830' (funded by the University of Hull) * Samuel North, 'Reclaiming the Islamic legacies of anti-slavery in the post-Apartheid Cape, South Africa' (funded by the AHRC) |