Members Bios: Mentors
Mentors
Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History, specialist in Caribbean history and history of slavery)
Diana grew up and near London and did her first degree at Warwick University, followed by a PhD at Yale University, where she studied with Emilia Viotti da Costa, Gilbert Joseph, and Nancy Cott. After a year as a Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford, she a became lecturer in history at Newcastle University in 2000. She was at Newcastle until 2016, becoming Professor of Caribbean History in 2015.
In 2016 she joined the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh as William Robertson Professor of History. Her research has been funded by the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.
She have supervised PhD projects in Caribbean and Latin American history, Caribbean literature, and British gender history. Diana welcomes applications from potential research students who wish to work on any area of Caribbean history, and on histories of slavery and emancipation and/or gender history elsewhere in the Americas or the British Empire. She also welcomes students interested in interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies.
Daryl Green (Head of Heritage Collections)
Daryl is the Head of Heritage Collections (Research & Curatorial) for the University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research Collections. His role within the REWG is to ensure that all research is firmly rooted in the unbiased evidence found in the University’s corporate archives, personal papers and printed collections.
Daryl has worked professionally with archives, manuscripts and printed books internationally for over 15 years and has an ongoing interest in the development of a critical and factual history of the University. He has published widely on the topics of intellectual and book history, and is an active member of the UNESCO Memory of the World programme and the International Federation of Library Associations.”
