Tony Frazier

Dr. Frazier is a historian of modern Europe, with a specialty in the comparative history of slavery and emancipation in modern Britain. He has secondary interests in African American history and digital history. He conducts research in Black British history, material culture, Atlantic slavery, African American intellectual history and memory. Dr. Frazier has taught courses in Early Modern European History, Modern European History, British History, African American history, African Diaspora, United States, and World History. He currently serves on the Council of the American Historical Association (AHA).

Dr. Frazier is currently writing his book manuscript tentatively titled Slaves Without Wages: Runaway Black Slaves and Servants in Eighteenth-Century London. This project investigates the meaning of freedom and liberty in English society, particularly as it relates to enslaved Black people, both before and after the 1772 Somerset Case. His research has been funded by the National Humanities Center.

After the completion of the book, Dr. Frazier will continue to work on a digital history project that documents the origins of Emancipation Days and memory in African American communities after the Civil War.

Recent Academic Publications:

Frazier, Tony, J. Jones, C. Jimenez, and S. Garcia. “Chapter 12: ‘Creating More Inclusive Spaces for African American Studies and Ethnic Studies in Digital Humanities Workshops.’” Digital Humanities Workshops, edited by Laura Estill and Jennifer Guiliano, 1st ed., Routledge, New York, NY, 2023.

Selected Awards and Fellowships:

• Just Transformations Commonwealth Fellowship with the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR), 2024-2025
• The Center for Humanities and Information (CHI) Faculty Fellow, 2024-2025
• The Richards Civil War Era Center Faculty Fellow, 2023-2024
• National Humanities Center Fellow, 2021-2022
• ACLS Fellow, New Storytellers Summer Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2021
• Duke University Mellon Foundation-John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Digital Humanities Initiative Fellow, 2017-201

Recent Courses Taught:

HIST 211: Slavery and Freedom in the Black Atlantic
HIST 250: HIST 250: Introduction to the Caribbean
HIST 435: HIST 435: Topics in European History