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Jonathan Connolly is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), affiliated with the Department of History within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the British Empire, legal history, and the transnational dimensions of emancipation and labor migration. He holds a PhD and J.D. from Stanford University.
Connolly’s work examines abolition, indentured labor systems, and the political economy of emancipation in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean regions. His book Worthy of Freedom (2024) explores how evolving conceptions of “free labor” influenced imperial policies. His scholarship has appeared in top journals like Past & Present, Slavery & Abolition, and Law and History Review, earning prestigious awards including the Walter D. Love Prize (2019) and Sutherland Prize (2024).
At UIC, he teaches courses on British imperialism, modern Europe, legal history, and migration studies. He received the 2024 Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellence in Teaching. Before UIC, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center and Princeton University’s Shelby Cullom Davis Center.
His current projects include studies on legal inquiry and colonial violence, as well as the intellectual history of antislavery thought. Connolly’s interdisciplinary approach bridges history, law, and transnational studies.
