Dr Dexnell Peters is currently a Lecturer in Caribbean and Atlantic History at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He was formerly Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, University of Oxford and holds a PhD in Atlantic History from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Peters is broadly interested in the history of the Greater Caribbean and the Atlantic World. His current research project, through the main themes of geography and the environment, inter-imperial transitions, migration, the plantation economy, politics and religion, makes a case for the rise of a Greater Southern Caribbean region (inclusive of Venezuela and the Guianas) in the late eighteenth century, showing evidence for a very polyglot, cross-imperial and interconnected world. His first book, written in collaboration with historian Shane Pantin at the University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine, focused on the history of the campus’ Guild of Students in commemoration of the organization’s fiftieth anniversary and covered key issues of student movements, decolonization and post-independence in the former British Caribbean colony of Trinidad & Tobago.
