Arina Zarei

Profile

I graduated from the University of Roehampton with a degree in History and a dissertation that focused on the role of Granville Sharpe within the early abolitionist movement. I then completed a postgraduate degree at the University of Leeds in Modern History, my postgraduate dissertation analysed the coverage of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in Punch magazine.

In 2022 I returned to academia after a sojourn into professional life with the commencement of my current doctoral research awarded by the University of Leeds. My PhD project, funded by Baring Asset Management Limited and ING Bank NV, London branch, explores Baring Brothers’ historical links to the Atlantic slave trade.

Research interests

My research interests include:

• British political establishment throughout the long nineteenth century
• slavery and unfree labour
• abolitionism
• Colonialism and imperalism
• gender, and gender constructs
• racism and anti-racism
• post-colonialism, decolonisation, nation-building 

I am a member of:

Royal Historical Society 

Qualifications

• BA Hons, University of Roehampton
• MA Distinction, University of Leeds