presented by: Rutgers British Studies Center
co-sponsored by: South Asian Studies Program
Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Connolly (Univ of Illinois, Chicago).
This event will be a book talk and conversation about Jonathan Connolly’s recently published book, Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (Chicago, 2024), which examines Indian indentureship in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad and how indenture transformed the meaning of “freedom” in the post-emancipation world.
The event is being organized by Dr. Yesenia Barragan, Department of History, Rutgers.
Biography of Dr. Connolly: Jonathan Connolly is an Assistant Professor of History at UIC and a historian of the British empire with transnational interests in migration, the history of emancipation, and legal history. His research primarily concerns abolition and emancipation, imperial political and legal culture, and the category of free labor in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Before coming to UIC, Connolly held postdoctoral fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, as well as his J.D. from Stanford Law School, in 2017.
Information about Dr. Connolly can be found here: https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/connolly-jon/
Information about Worthy of Freedom can be found here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo214752216.html
Please visit the RBSC event page for more information on this event.