J.M.H. Clark

J.M.H. Clark serves as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, where he focuses on the intersection of Caribbean, Latin American, and Atlantic World histories.

His research centers on Afro-descended communities in colonial Mexico and the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on Veracruz as a critical port city. His current book project "Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century" investigates how trade networks, migration patterns, and environmental factors shaped transimperial relationships that influenced local constructions of race, ethnicity, and social status across diasporic populations.

Clark's work bridges environmental history with studies of race and empire, demonstrating how Caribbean connections permeated Mexican coastal communities through fluid imperial boundaries and cultural exchanges.