Dr. Dexnell Peters is Lecturer in Caribbean and Atlantic History at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. I was previously a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and Supernumerary Fellow and Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, University of Oxford. I have a PhD in Atlantic History from Johns Hopkins University. I am broadly interested in the history of the Greater Caribbean and the Atlantic World. My current research project, through the main themes of geography and the environment, inter-imperial transitions, migration, the plantation economy, politics and religion, makes a case for the rise of a Greater Southern Caribbean region (inclusive of Venezuela and the Guianas) in the late eighteenth century, showing evidence for a very polyglot, cross-imperial and interconnected world. My first book, written in collaboration with historian Shane Pantin at the University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine, focused on the history of the campus’ Guild of Students in commemoration of the organization’s fiftieth anniversary and covered key issues of student movements, decolonization and post-independence in the former British Caribbean colony of Trinidad & Tobago.
Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar is a Lebanese feminist, archivist, historian, and educator. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk, Miꞌkmaꞌki, the homeland of the Mi’kmaq known as Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is the founding director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Government of Canada working with Raymond Frogner at the National Center for Truth & Reconciliation and Dr. Greg Bak at the History Dept. at the University of Manitoba. Jamila holds a PhD and Master of Information from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Her research appears in Archival Science; Library Quarterly; and Archivaria. More recently, she published a chapter in the open-source book, Displaced Archival Heritage (2023, Routledge); and in Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research (2024, SAGE). Ghaddar has led and worked on archival initiatives and information projects in sites around the world. She worked at AUB’s Jafet Library archiving the personal papers of the Arab intellectual who coined the term “Nakba”, Dr. Constantine Zurayk; and at the Centre of Memory in Johannesburg preserving the papers of the antiapartheid hero, Nelson Mandela. As a Research Affiliate at the PLSC, she works on designing, coordinating, and implementing projects and collaborations in Palestine and Lebanon to preserve and make available archives and heritage.
