Bronwen Everill

Bronwen Everill is a historian whose work has explored comparative economic cultures, Anglo-American foreign policy, imperial humanitarianism in Africa, and revolutions in the Atlantic World.  She loves experimenting with new structures, genres, and modes of writing about people in the past. Bronwen is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance. Her previous books include Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Previously director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge, Bronwen is now on the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past, in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosh University. She is also a student in the MFA Creative Writing program at Rutgers University-Camden. Her writing appears in the TLS, Smithsonian Magazine, BBC History Magazine, Foreign Policy, History News Network, Defenestration Magazine, and Barrelhouse.