I am an ethnographer and grandchild of the Caribbean whose work spans:

(I) Black & indigenous ecologies, hurricanes survivals & repair

(II) the material & affective afterlives of Bristolian slavery

(III) Caribbean kinship & fatherhood

Methodologically, I'm committed to collaborative & experimental ethnographies (exploring digital mapping, archives, visual & sonic methods, and Caribbean poetics). My scholarly practice seeks the 'grounding' of live questions – on environmental justice, how we remember slavery and Caribbean kinship – in public dialogue. 

From 2019-2023 I led the GCRF Surviving Storms | CCC project, which used multimodal research to map/archive hurricane adaptation, survivals & repair in Dominica.

I am currently part of an AHRC Mission team that utilises film and museum curation to track the undead past of enslavement accross the Atlantic world - from Ghana to Brasil, Dominica and the UK (2025-28). 

My work features in Antipode, JRAI, Transforming Anthropology, Sargasso, Suomen Antropologi, Ethos, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, SAA Archaeological Record, Public Books, numerous edited books and readers, and I have spoken several multimodal platforms, including:

ODI's Small Islands Big Picture, Surviving Society [ Pt. I + Pt. II ], Dis a fi mi History, Geographies of Risk , Mandem x Barbican + Conversations With Anthropologists.

Recent publications: 

• Plotting Survival [Plurivers]
• Pedagogies of Survival [Chapter, Handbook of Caribbean Studies]
• What Exactly is a Family Man? [Ethos]
• Still Standing [Book, Papillotte Press]
• Surviving Maria [Transforming Anthropology]
• In the hurricane’s path [Archaeological Record]
• The ti kai Project. Craft. Collaboration. Care [Sargasso]
• Abyssal Ethnography? [SJTG]
• Goodnight Colston [Antipode]
• Homing Empire [Public Books]
• Blood Speaks [JRAI]
• Becoming Papa [vol. chapter]
• Coming to Terms with Caribbean Families [vol. chapter]

I am a co-founder of Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio & a member of Bristol Centre for Black Humanities collectives. 

From 2017-2022 I worked as a Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. Before that I held a post-doc (2017) at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), School of Advanced Study, University of London - where I developed the Caribbean Studies Collection for Senate House Library. 

Education

• PhD, Social Anthropology [St Andrews, 2017]
• MRes, Social Anthropology [St Andrews, 2012]
• BA, Social Anthropology and Development Studies [Sussex, 2010]

PhD Students 

• Rambisayi Marufu - Intimate Geographies: Weaving Threads of Diasporic Intimacy In Black Women's Spaces of Hair Care in London (CHASE funded - external, Goldsmiths University)

• Alice Clough - Telling Different Stories. Exploring and interrogating acts of interpretation in commercial archaeology settings (funded by AHRC Collaborative PhD program - Museum of London and Univeristy of Bristol) 

I welcome PhD students with interests in Caribbean and Afro Diasporic worlds; as well as those with thematic interests in Black ecologies, kinship, slavery's afterlives, or multimodal / collaborative methods. 

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