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Alycia Hall serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History within the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. Her academic work focuses on the African Diaspora with particular emphasis on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean.
Dr. Hall received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and History from Yale University. Prior to her current position at UBC, she completed a Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice and John Carter Brown Library at Brown University for the 2023/2024 academic year.
Her research centers on the formation and development of Jamaican Maroon communities, examining their complex social, political, and economic interactions during Jamaica's transition from slavery to free labor. Dr. Hall's current manuscript, tentatively titled Strategic Ties: Family, Land, and Plantation Connections in Maroon Jamaica, extends the historical narrative of these communities from the Second Maroon War of the 1790s through to the 1890s. Her work explores how Maroon communities navigated changing societal structures and actively positioned themselves within Jamaican society during this transformative period.
Dr. Hall's scholarship contributes significantly to our understanding of post-emancipation Caribbean societies, particularly in how formerly enslaved populations and their descendants negotiated power, land ownership, and social status in the decades following abolition. Her approach emphasizes intricate relationalities between Maroon communities and other groups in Jamaica, providing a nuanced perspective on the period's social dynamics.
