Dr. Morgan DaCosta is a Junior Research Fellow at New College. Her research draws on archival resources to produce a genealogy of policing from the end of British slavery in 1838 through to the early 21st century in Jamaica and Trinidad. She conceptualises police power as a form of reiterative violence used to reproduce slavery-era and colonial social order in postcolonial former slave societies. Previously, she worked for Human Rights Watch researching abuses by security forces and human trafficking in the Sahel, and was a Fulbright scholar in Senegal examining urban women’s political activism.

Teaching: 

• Introduction to the Practice of Politics
• Political Sociology

Research Interests:

• Atlantic Slavery
• Black Internationalism and Pan-Africanism
• Maronnage and Slave resistance
• Racial Capitalism and the Afterlives of Slavery