Dr Grace Carrington

Overview

Dr Grace Carrington is a Research Fellow at both the UCL Institute of the Americas and the Department of International Politics at City St George's, University of London. She is a historian of twentieth century politics and decolonisation in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. Her latest book 'Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean' analyses the post-1945 trajectories of islands which maintained constitutional ties to European colonial powers. The book focuses on Martinique, Guadeloupe, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

Grace is currently part of an interdisciplinary research team working on the AHRC-funded Visible Crown project. As part of this project, she is writing a book entitled 'The British Monarchy in the Caribbean since 1952: Decolonisation, Republicanism and Reparations', which examines the monarchy's symbolic and structural power in Caribbean politics throughout the late colonial and post-independence eras.

Grace holds an MA in French and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation from the LSE, and a PhD in International History from the LSE. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has previously taught courses on ‘From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century’ and ‘International Politics since 1914’ at the LSE.

Employment

• Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, August 2021 - present

Languages

French and Spanish - Latin American

Expertise

Geographic Areas

• Americas - Central
• Americas - North
• Americas - South

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