Padraic X. Scanlan

Padraic X. Scanlan

First Name: 
Padraic X.
Last Name: 
Scanlan
Title: 
Associate Professor
Office Location : 
Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 121 St. George Street, Room 303 Toronto, ON, M5S 2E8
Biography : 

Padraic X. Scanlan is Associate Professor at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He is an historian of labour, enslaved and free, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of two books, Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (Robinson, 2020) and Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2017).

Professor Scanlan is currently working on a history of the Irish Great Famine, agricultural labour and imperial political economy, and a history of the working day in the nineteenth century. 

 

Professor Scanlan's CV

Education: 
PhD

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Labour history
  • Capitalism and political economy
  • British imperialism and colonialism
Cross-Appointments: 
Associate Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
Research Associate, Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge and Harvard University

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Meta Description: 
Padraic X. Scanlan is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies