Trevor Burnard, Ph.D.
Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation | Director of the Wilberforce Institute | University of Hull
Trevor Burnard was born in New Zealand, and attended Johns Hopkins in the United States. Burnard has been an educator within institutions across the globe, specifically in Jamaica, New Zealand, Britain and Australia. Burnard was the Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and director of the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull, from 2020 to 2024. Burnard focused on early American and Caribbean history with an interest in the historiography of slavery and plantations. Recent monographs include Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (Virginia, 2023) and Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (Pennsylvania, 2020).