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To be awarded annually by the Transatlantic Studies Association for the best paper presented at its annual conference by an early career scholar.

Award: £250

Early career scholar is defined as:

a PhD student; anyone within 3 years of having been awarded a PhD;anyone who has a full-time appointment at a recognised higher education institution, but has not held the post for more than 3 years and does not fall into the doctoral category.

Papers should be submitted to Tony McCulloch on or before 31 May 2009 for the annual conference, tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk


"British West Africa or 'The United States of Africa'? Imperial Pressures on the Transatlantic Antislavery Movement, 1839-1842"

Bronwen Everill is a PhD student in History at King's College London, where she is supervised by Professor Emeritus Andrew Porter.  Her dissertation examines the tensions between imperialism and antislavery in the settler societies of Sierra Leone and Liberia and their metropolitan counterparts, Britain and America.  She received her MSt in Archaeology from Oxford University in 2006 and her BA in History from Harvard University in 2005.