Marley Lix-Jones is a scholar of slavery in the British Caribbean and the United States. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. Her dissertation, Disturbed Districts: Contests over Community and Land During Slave Rebellions in the Greater Caribbean, uses the archive of slave rebellions to examine the intimate values and social connections of enslaved people across the Caribbean and Lower South. It examines the role of Black placemaking in shaping and reshaping life in the Greater Caribbean.
Her research has been supported by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and more. Lix-Jones received her B.A. in History from University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to beginning her graduate training, she worked as a Public Programs Developer at the Oakland Museum of California.
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