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Dr

Anne-Marie Angelo

(she/her)

Associate Professor In American History (History)

School of Media, Arts and Humanities

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  • Associate Professor In American History (History)
    School of Media, Arts and Humanities
  • +44 (0)1273 877036 Ext.7036 (Work)

BIO

Anne-Marie Angelo (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in American History in the Department of History and Centre for American Studies. She examines transnational social movements and popular perceptions of American racism and African-American history outside the United States in the modern era.

Her monograph Black Power on the Move is forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press. The book is based on oral histories she and others have conducted with British and Mizrahi Black Panthers; photographs taken from within those movements; movement newspapers; and sources external to the movements, including intelligence reports and police records. It reframes the Black Panthers as a transnational movement of displaced imperialized people resisting local and national structures that fostered racism in housing, education, and employment.

 

For the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Anne-Marie has recently completed a research project examining 19th century banker and philanthropist George Peabody and his connections to slavery. Born and raised in the U.S., Peabody lived and worked in the UK from 1837 to 1869. The Peabody Institute was the first music conservatory in the United States. The research has found that Peabody earned significant wealth from his banking, business, and commerce engagements with slavery. A report detailing these findings has been published here.

 

Angelo has previously published on the history of the British Black Panthers as a diasporic movement in Radical History Review (2009); on the British Panthers’ grassroots internationalism in The Journal of Civil and Human Rights (2018); and a biographical sketch of Black British anti-imperialist and anti-racist activist Tony Soares in The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States (eds. Robin D.G. Kelley and Stephen Tuck, Routledge, 2015). 

With Dr. Kira Thurman (Michigan), she co-commissioned and co-edited the African American Intellectual History Society’s “Black Europe” blog series. She has also co-authored, with Dr. Tom Adam Davies (Sussex), an article on Cold War U.S. business relations with sub-Saharan Africa under the Kennedy administration in The Sixties (2015). She also specializes in visual culture, especially the history of photography and has published book reviews in Transforming Anthropology and photography magazine The Source. She obtained her doctorate in History from Duke University in 2013, where her work was supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Foreign Language and Area Studies grant program in Middle East Studies and Arabic.


Anne-Marie is also in the early stages of a future research project, Retail Therapy, which examines pathologizations of and emotions surrounding women's consumption, from the early modern period to the present. It explores women's variegated feelings about shopping, both for themselves and for families, and it considers the medicalization of women's consumption, through the establishment of psychological illnesses such as oniomania, kleptomania, compulsive buying, and hoarding.

DEGREES

  • PhD, History
    Duke University, Durham, United States2013
  • MA, History
    Duke University, Durham, United States2007
  • BA, American Studies
    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States2001

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • German
    Can read, write, speak and understand

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 1 No Poverty
  • 4 Quality Education

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