Paton, Diana

Diana Paton has researched and taught Caribbean history for nearly twenty years. She studied at Warwick and Yale Universities and is currently Reader in Caribbean History at Newcastle University. Her widely cited first book, No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780 1870 (2004), was short-listed for the 2007 Elsa Goveia Prize of the Association of Caribbean Historians. Her article, 'Witchcraft, Poison, Law and Atlantic Slavery' won the Lester J. Cappon Award for the best article published in William and Mary Quarterly in 2012. She has also co-edited two...