Dr. Andrew Wells
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NameDr. Andrew Wells
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Andrew Wells is a historian of the early modern British Atlantic world. He trained in the UK and Canada and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2009. His research interests include the histories of race and racism, freedom, urban history, and human-animal relations.
His first book, Generating Difference: Race and the Reproductive Body in the British Empire, 1660-1840 is forthcoming and he is close to completing a second monograph entitled Freedom's Parish: Liberty and the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760. He has co-edited (with Sarah Cockram), Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity (Routledge, 2018) and he has published articles in the journals History of European Ideas, Journal of British Studies, Urban History, History Compass, Amerikastudien/American Studies, and chapters in a number of edited collections.
At the TU Dresden he is preparing an application for funding to support a new project that will explore the history of animals and transatlantic slavery.