About RANDY

Randy M. Browne is an award-winning historian of Atlantic slavery who specializes in the British Caribbean. He is the author of The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2024) and Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean (2017), which received the biennial Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. Randy is Professor of History and Director of First-Year Seminar at Xavier University. His scholarship has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Library Company of Philadelphia, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, and The Huntington Library. His articles on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, Slavery & Abolition, and the New West Indian Guide. Randy received his B.A. in History and Spanish from Eckerd College and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and son.