Douglas Field (Principal Investigator)
Douglas Field is Professor of American Literature at the University of Manchester. A co-founding editor of James Baldwin Review, he has published widely on the American author. He is the author of James Baldwin (Liverpool University Press, 2011), All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me (Manchester University Press, 2024). He is the editor of A Historical Guide to James Baldwin (Oxford University Press, 2009), and the co-editor of a special issue on Baldwin for African American Review (2013).
Email: douglas.field@manchester.ac.uk
Kennetta Hammond Perry (Co-Investigator)
Kennetta Hammond Perry is Associate Professor of Black Studies and History at Northwestern University. She is the author of London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (OUP, 2016). Currently she serves as a member of the editorial collective for History Workshop Journal and is on the editorial board for the American Historical Review. She is also completing a book manuscript, Living and Dying in David Oluwale’s Britain focused on histories of racialized state violence in Britain which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Email: kennetta.perry@dmu.ac.uk
Rob Waters (Co-Investigator)
Rob Waters is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Thinking Black: Britain, 1964–1985 (University of California Press, 2018), and Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2023). He currently holds an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement fellowship for his project titled The Rise of the Border: A New History of Immigration, Race, and Citizenship in Britain.
Isabel Taube (Research Associate)
Isabel Taube completed her PhD in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2024. Her ongoing research on James Baldwin’s relationship to Britain has culminated in an article, ‘Emerging Insights: James Baldwin and Britain,’ which featured in Volume 11 of the James Baldwin Review. Her writing on the Belgian filmmaker, Chantal Akerman, was published in The Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook (A Nos Amours, 2019).
Email: isabel.taube@manchester.ac.uk
Catherine McGuire and Jia Wu (IT Support)
The project has received expert technical support from Software Engineer Catherine McGuire in Research IT at the University of Manchester. We are especially thankful to her, and to Jia Wu, Senior Research Software Engineer.
Our funding
To undertake this project, we have received generous funding from AHRC.
