Trevor Burnard Explained

Trevor Graeme Burnard (15 October 1960 – 19 July 2024) was a New Zealander historian. He was a specialist in the history of slavery in the Atlantic world.

Early life and education

Burnard was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and grew up in the suburb of Green Island, where he attended the local primary school, Green Island School. It was at this school that he first developed an interest in history. Subsequently, his family moved to Invercargill, and Burnard attended Southland Boys' High School. Burnard completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, graduating in 1983 with first-class honours in history. He later explained: "My history teachers at Otago were spectacular and made me want to do what they did," citing, in particular, Michael Cullen and Dorothy Page.[1] [2]

Burnard completed his doctoral research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, under the supervision of Jack P. Greene, graduating in 1986 with an MA and in 1989 with a PhD. His thesis was on plantation owners of Maryland and was later published, in 2002, as Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776.

Academic career

While finishing his PhD at Johns Hopkins, in 1987 Burnard was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of the West Indies, Mona in Jamaica. He later stated that his mentor at Mona was Barry W. Higman, whom he described as "the best of a stellar generation of historians who were born in Australia in the 1940s." During his time at Mona, Burnard said he did "the archival work on early Jamaica that has sustained me for my entire career." He recalled developing "an abiding interest in Jamaican history as a result of frequent visits to the Jamaica Archives in Spanish Town, driving an ancient VW Beetle in the days before the road between Kingston and Spanish Town became clogged with traffic."[3]

After a brief appointment as a lecturer in history in 1989 at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, Burnard was hired as a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1990.[4]

Burnard was professor of history at the University of Hull, where he was the Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation .[5] He was formerly at the University of Warwick[6] and the University of Melbourne.[7] He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Slavery and Abolition.[8] Burnard died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 63.[9]

Selected publications

Books

Selected articles and book chapters

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 14 February 2018 . Q&A with Professor Trevor Burnard . 26 November 2024 . Australian Historical Association Early Career Researchers.
  2. News: Rice . Geoffrey W. . 16 August 2024 . Life story: A passion for investigating the past . 26 November 2024 . The Press.
  3. Web site: About . https://web.archive.org/web/20161106222943/http://trevorburnard.com/?page=about . 6 November 2016 . 26 November 2024 . trevorburnard.com.
  4. Web site: Burnard . Trevor . 2015 . Curriculum Vitae . 29 November 2024 . Academia.edu.
  5. Web site: Professor Trevor Burnard - The University of Hull. www.hull.ac.uk. 24 March 2022.
  6. Web site: Former Member of Staff: Professor Trevor Burnard. Warwick.ac.uk. 2 May 2019.
  7. Web site: PROF Trevor Burnard - The University of Melbourne. Findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. 2 May 2019.
  8. Web site: Honouring the life and legacy of Professor Trevor Burnard. University of Hull, Wilberforce Institute. 22 July 2024. 24 July 2024.
  9. News: Banfield-Nwachi . Mabel . 2024-07-22 . Tributes paid to UK historian lauded for work on Atlantic slavery . 2024-07-23 . . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  10. Book: Writing the History of Global Slavery . 19 July 2024 . 10.1017/9781009406284 . 2023 . Burnard . Trevor . 978-1-009-40628-4 .
  11. Web site: The Plantation Machine - Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus. Upenn.edu. 2 May 2019.
  12. Web site: Kelley on Burnard, 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo Jamaican World' and Trevor Burnard, 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World' - H-Atlantic - H-Net. Networks.h-net.org. 2 May 2019.
  13. Web site: Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776. CRC Press. 2 May 2019.
  14. Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691– 1776. Emory G.. Evans. 1 June 2003. Journal of American History. 90. 1. 205–206. 2 May 2019. 10.2307/3659810. 3659810.
  15. Trevor Burnard. Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776. (New World in the Atlantic World.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. ix, 278. Cloth $85.00, paper $23.95. Thomas. Murphy. S.. J. 1 February 2003. The American Historical Review. 108. 1. 185. 10.1086/ahr/108.1.185.
  16. Book: Planters, Merchants, and Slaves. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 . 2 May 2019. Press.uchicago.edu.
  17. Web site: HEARING SLAVES SPEAK by TREVOR BURNARD. Guyana Chronicle. 2 August 2014. 24 July 2024.
  18. A Passion For Places: The Geographic Turn In Early American History. Trevor. Burnard. Commonplace: the journal of early American life. 8.4. July 2008. 24 July 2024.
  19. Book: Burnard, Trevor. The Other British Colonies. W. . Klooster. The Enlightenment and the British Colonies. 248–68. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2023. 10.1017/9781108567671.

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