Dr David Doddington

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Research projects

"Are you men?" Contested Manhood in Slave Communities of the United States, 1800-1865 (Under contract with Cambridge University Press)

This monograph demonstrates that masculine identity was a site of contest and comparison within slave communities of the antebellum South. In exploring how enslaved people negotiated identities in relation to one another, and not simply with white society in mind, I help to demonstrate the fluidity of gender as a social and cultural construct and the limitations to any monolithic model of black solidarity.

Writing the History of Slavery (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Press)

Writing the History of Slavery explores major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, highlighting the varied ways historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world.

"Old Fellows":  Age, Identity, and the Antebellum Slave Community 

In this project I will explore how enslaved men experienced "old age" in bondage, examining how ideas on physical and/or mental decline impacted upon their sense of self, their relationships with others in their communities, and their responses to slavery. The past few decades have seen a significant amount of work on enslaved manhood, demonstrating that enslaved men fought against the emasculating effects of slavery with public performances of power, authority, self-reliance, and assistances to others. Yet such depictions often represent manhood and men's responses to slavery as static; as enslaved men grew older, though, the performances expected of them and the possibilities afforded them shifted - both from within the slave community but also from outside - and this affected how enslaved men perceived of themselves and others. This project will, therefore, explore how enslaved men dealt with the process and pressures of ageing while enslaved.

This project will make an important impact in terms of: (i) furthering our understanding of the diverse identities forged in enslavement, the dynamic relations that marked slave communities and the tense negotiations between individuals ostensibly united by oppression; (ii) challenging monolithic depictions of black masculinity and allowing for a more nuanced treatment of gender as a social and cultural construct; (iii) showing how experiences of slavery, including abstract notions like "resistance", "accommodation", and "agency" were interpreted, negotiated, and shaped by reference to age and identity.

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 Education and qualifications

2005-2008 – BA (Hons), First Class, History, the University of Warwick

2008-2009 – MA in the History of Race in the Americas, the University of Warwick

2009-2013 – PhD in History, the University of Warwick

Career overview

2009 – 2013 – Seminar Tutor, the University of Warwick

2012-2013 – Lecturer in U.S. History (fixed term), the University of Leicester

2012-2013 – Early Career Fellow, the Institute of Advanced Studies, the University of Warwick

2013-2014 – Lecturer in U.S. History (fixed term), the University of York

Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau

12/2013 – Centre for the Americas at York, Award for a conference entitled, Representing and Remembering Slavery in the Americas

05/2013 – Travel Award, Humanities Research Centre and the Institute of Advanced Study, the University of Warwick

02/2013 – Warwick Transatlantic Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre - Declined.

08/2011 – Conference Bursary, Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University Toronto

06/2011 - The Eccles Centre Postgraduate Award in North American Studies at the British Library: awarded for the best proposal in research at the British Library, Eccles Centre.

02/2011 – The University of Warwick American Study and Student Exchange Committee Travel Award.

09/2010 - Peter J. Parish Memorial Award – British American Nineteenth Century Historians.

2009/2012 - The Richard and Anne Crossman Award for doctoral research, the University of Warwick.

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

• British Association for American Studies (BAAS).
• The Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH).
• The Southern Historical Association (SHA).
• Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW).
• Reviewer, Oxford University Press
• Book reviews for journals, including Nineteenth Century American History
• Contributor to AQA A Level History Textbook, The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865-1975

Pwyllgorau ac adolygu

• Adolygiadau llyfr solicited ac adolygiadau cymheiriaid o lawysgrifau llyfrau ac erthyglau, gan gynnwys: American Historical Review, Family History, Journal of the Civil War Era, Black Perspectives, Slavery & Abolition, Journal of Southern History, William & Mary Quarterly, Nineteenth Century American History, Gender & History, Journal of Global Slavery, Journal of the Early Republic, Reviews in History, Journal of Social History, Journal of Social History, Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, Gwasg Prifysgol Rhydychen, Louisiana State University Press, De Gruyter.
• Bwrdd Cynghori ar gyfer Gwyddoniadur Ar-lein Routledge o hil a hiliaeth.
• Bwrdd golygyddol, Journal of Global Slavery.
• Aseswr allanol ar gyfer cymrodoriaeth ECR Ceisiadau i Golegau Prifysgol Caergrawnt: Churchill, Fitzwilliam, Murray Edwards, Robinson, Trinity Hall.
• Aseswr a safonwr ar gyfer Cynllun DTP AHRC.
• Pwyllgor Gwobrau ar gyfer Gwobr Myfyrwyr BAAS.

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

Rwy'n croesawu ymholiadau ynghylch addysgu a goruchwylio caethwasiaeth, rhyw, oedran a hil yn hanes America.