Dr. Morgan DaCosta is a Junior Research Fellow at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø. Her research draws on archival resources to produce a genealogy of policing from the end of British slavery in 1838 through to the early 21st century in Jamaica and Trinidad. She conceptualises police power as a form of reiterative violence used to reproduce slavery-era and colonial social order in postcolonial former slave societies. Previously, she worked for Human Rights Watch researching abuses by security forces and human trafficking in the Sahel, and was a Fulbright scholar in Senegal examining urban women’s political activism.
Teaching:
- Introduction to the Practice of Politics
- Political Sociology
Research Interests:
- Atlantic Slavery
- Black Internationalism and Pan-Africanism
- Maronnage and Slave resistance
- Racial Capitalism and the Afterlives of Slavery
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