Kate Hodgson
Post-doctoral research fellow
University of Hull, WISE
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♦ Participation to EURESCL project

WP1 – Frontiers, nationalism and feelings of belonging
Conducting research into the impact of debates over slavery and abolition in nineteenth century European political culture.

Constructing a database of campaigning organisations, travellers’ accounts and formal constitutional arrangements that will become one of the deliverables for workpackage 1.   

♦ Main research areas

Research interests include nineteenth century history and cultural politics, colonialism and Empire, postcolonial studies, and history and memory in Caribbean literature.

♦ Main Publications

Hodgson, K (Forthcoming) "Pour que surgisse le passé: Remembering the "Unknown Maroons" of Haiti", Francophone Postcolonial Studies 8.1 (2010).
Hodgson, K, ‘‘Ils ne sont pas nos frères": Postcolonial Family Ties in Nineteenth Century Haiti and France, Nexilus 1 (2008).