Dr Inge Dornan
Acting Deputy Dean - CBASS / Divisional Lead / Reader in the History of Race and Gender
Marie Jahoda 228
- Email: inge.dornan@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266831
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
Summary
My research and teaching focus on histories of race and gender in Britain and the Americas. I joined СʪÃÃÊÓƵ London in 2003, after completing my PhD at Cambridge University. I am currently Division Lead of Politics and History, and Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Sciences. In this role, I am committed to providing an outstanding student experience, based on excellent teaching and a strong community of care and support for our students.
I have a longstanding record of commitment to generating research impact and sharing and disseminating historical research in the public sphere. In 2019, I led a series of public engagement events in London on the theme of 'Unlocking the Secrets of Britain's Slave Past' as part of the UK Being Human Festival of the Humanities, sponsored by the London School of Advanced СʪÃÃÊÓƵ, the AHRC and British Academy. This included walking tours to uncover the hidden narratives of British slavery in the built landscape of Hillingdon and Uxbridge; a specially curated exhibition with СʪÃÃÊÓƵ London Archives on the British and Foreign School Society and the education of enslaved children in the British Caribbean; and an award-winning heritage production on the British slave trade, Breaking the Silence, which I co-wrote with theatre director and academic, Dr Holly Maples. These events culminated in a public lecture on the forgotten history of British slavery which I chaired with Professor David Olusoga. In 2020, I was awarded СʪÃÃÊÓƵ London's inaugural Research Impact Award for Public Engagement.
In 2021, Breaking the Silence attracted considerable critical acclaim on a sell-out tour of the UK. A second tour is scheduled in 2023 to commemorate the bicententary of the founding of the British Anti-Slavery Society.
My research has also been supported through several fellowships, including Senior Fellow and Associate Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, where I conducted a research project on enslaved women in the British slave trade; and Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford, where I developed a research project on the education of enslaved children in the British West Indies.
I am committed to research-led teaching and have been grateful to be nominated by my students for the Student Led Teaching Awards for best Tutor and Dissertation Supervisor.
I support and advocate for the study of History in the UK, through my membership of the History UK Steering Committee, and serving on the 2021 UK QAA History Subject Benchmark Statement panel.
Newest selected publications
Dornan, I. and Whittaker, H. (2024) 'Unleashing the Lion's Roar: A Grass-Roots Counter-Campaign and the Memorialisation of the 'Glorious' British Empire'. Radical History Review, 0 (accepted, in press). ISSN: 0163-6545
Dornan, I. (Accepted) 'Slave Children', inRoutledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. London : Routledge. , in press.
Dornan, I. (2021) ''. Journal of Global Slavery, 6 (1). pp. 131 - 155. ISSN: 2405-8351
Dornan, I. (2019) 'To ‘make a good Mistress to my servants’: unmasking the meaning of maternalism in colonial South Carolina.', in Aje, L. and Armstrong, C. (eds.) The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Slave Experiences in the Americas.. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 88 - 110. ISBN 13: 9781350071421.
Dornan, I. (2019) ''. Studies in Church History, 55. pp. 410 - 425. ISSN: 0424-2084