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Home > Our Faculty > Faculty Profiles > Dayo Nicole MitchellDayo Nicole Mitchell
CURRENT RESEARCHAs her students in the world history sequence well know, Professor Mitchell is fascinated by cross-cultural encounters and the connections and interactions that shaped the global system. Her specific field of study is the Atlantic World, defined as the study of the links and interaction among the Americas, Africa, and Europe, from approximately 1500-1900. Her secondary emphasis is the British empire and its competitors, particularly but not exclusively in the Caribbean.Professor Mitchell is currently preparing a manuscript based on her dissertation, "The Ambiguous Distinctions of Descent: Free People of Color and Citizenship in Trinidad and Dominica, 1800-1838," which examines the attempt of free people of color—neither slaves nor white—in the Caribbean to build a political platform that would win them civic equality to whites and would unite the disparate individuals labeled "free people of color," who ranged from recently manumitted day laborers to wealthy slaveholding planters. A smaller project takes a comparative look at nineteenth-century British attitudes toward people of mixed race in India and the West Indies. Professor Mitchell joined the honors college in the fall of 2004. In addition to teaching the history sequence for the honors college, she anticipates developing thematic classes in Atlantic, imperial, and world history—particularly on race-mixing and environmental/scientific history. |
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