Nadine Hunt is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at York University, under the supervision of Professor Paul E. Lovejoy and Professor David V. Trotman. She attained a B.A. Honours degree in History and Film and Video (2002), and a M.A. degree in History (2004) at York University. In 2003, she received the Stevenson Scholar in African Studies at York University. In 2004, she participated in the inaugural York International Internship Program, where Hunt worked at the Centro Investigaciones Históricas de América Central at the Universidad de Costa Rica. In 2006, she was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2007, she received a short-term grant for research in Atlantic History from the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University and a research bursary from the David Nicholls Memorial Trust in Oxford, England.
She has been actively involved in the transition and inauguration of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University. She is currently a member of its interim-Executive Committee. She continues to co-edit the Institute’s African Diaspora Newsletter, and assists in the maintenance of its website. During her graduate studies, she has volunteered at organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel as an In-school Mentor and Holland Christian Homes for seniors.
Hunt’s doctoral dissertation entitled “The Caribbean trade of Jamaica: the consolidation of Atlantic networks, 1756-1807” explores how African, European, and Amerindian social, economic, and political worlds intersected in the circum-Caribbean. She argues that these landscapes on the fringe of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico were intimately connected to the Atlantic world via Jamaica. The dissertation specifically looks at the trade in finished goods and secondary commodities, it attempts to establish a connection between mass arrivals of enslaved Africans after 1750 on Jamaica, through the end of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807. One aspect of the dissertation is to interrogate the lived experiences of enslaved Africans resident in Jamaica and the enslaved forced to migrate from the island to other circum-Caribbean destinations via the intra-Caribbean slave trade.
Abstract: A weh dem a go?: The slave trade of Jamaica |
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