Dr KAREN SALT
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School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, CA109
King's College
University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen, Scotland
United Kingdom
AB24 3FX
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Biography
I am a Caribbeanist in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen. I currently direct the Centre for the Study of History, Culture and the Environment and teach and supervise students in Caribbean studies, African diaspora studies, and political ecology. I reach across disciplinary boundaries at the University of Aberdeen by affiliating as an associate with the Centre for Sustainable International Development and working with an interdisciplinary team of scholars on the Management Team of the Principal's theme of environment and food security. I have contributed articles and essays to journals and edited collections on ecologies, Caribbean environmental studies, and Atlantic racial slavery. At present, I am steering an international comparative island ecoaesthetics project and presiding over the Early Caribbean Society, a professional organization for scholars who are interested in the culture, politics, and aesthetic reverberations and representations of pre-1900 Caribbean societies. Two book projects under development: All Hail the Queen: The Branding of Haiti in the Nineteenth Century and Twilight Spaces: Caribbean Political Ecology Amidst the Islands.
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Research Interests
Haiti, Caribbean Studies/History, Black Atlantic Studies, Global Modernisms, African Colonisation/Decolonisation, Political Ecology, African Diaspora Studies, African American History/ Cultural Studies
I am affiliated with the collaborative University of Aberdeen research project, Translating Cultures.
I work as an Associate Investigator for the CURIOS project within dot.rural, http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/curios/.
I have two main research interests that I am pursuing.
1) The geographies of race and sovereignty in the nineteenth-century Caribbean, specifically in relation to the international power-plays of Haitian officials. In my work during this era, I trace how this self-avowed black nation operated amongst other Atlantic nation-states, especially those still fueled and formed by Atlantic racial slavery. Portions of this research led to my interests in my second area, as land-use and rights dominate this time period.
2) The interworkings of race, power, and place in the management and protection of island systems. This contemporary project tracks the evolution of protected areas from resource extracted sites to militarised spaces. It asks what lies at the heart of some of the decisions to save the world by curdoning off portions of it from select groups of people.
In addition to the above, I am gathering material on Afro-Scots for a possible documentary and exhibition.
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Teaching Responsibilities
My main teaching responsibilites are in the Department of History.
There, I co-ordinate:
HI35XX The Black Atlantic World
HI354K The Haitian Revolution
HI35XX Kings, Queens, Revolutionaries and Outlaws: The Politics and Culture of the Caribbean
HI4015 African Diasporas
HI4015 Critical Race Theory
I contribute to:
HI2020 Birth of Modernity: Politics, Culture & Science in Europe, 1700-1870
HI2520 Global Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century
HS2503 History of Science II
LW1503 Creative Practices: Literature in a World Context II
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Admin Responsibilities
In 2011-12, I was the Director of the Centre for Cultural History. This Centre's re-mit expanded, in 2012, to include issues related to space and the environment.
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