Meet the team

Our core team collaborates across disciplines, sectors and nations, to raise the global environmental profile of treaties.

Project Leads

Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History

Charles W. A. Prior

Reader in Early Modern History & Head of the School of Humanities

TSRG British Academy Global Professor

Gregory D. Smithers

Virginia Commonwealth University

Project CO-Is on Brightening the Covenant Chain

Professor Dale Turner

Temagami First Nation (Anishinaabe), Department of Political Science,
University of Toronto

Professor Mark Walters

Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

Professor Pekka Hämäläinen

Rhodes Professor of American History, University of Oxford

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Digital) – Brightening the Covenant Chain

Dr Matthias Wong

Project Administrator – Brightening the Covenant Chain

Rachel Dickens

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Kimberley Lustina Weir

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Archival) – Brightening the Covenant Chain

Dr Laura Gillespie

Treatied Spaces PhD Students

Hannah Cusworth

(Mahogany, Enslaved Africans, Miskito Indigenous People – AHRC CDA with English Heritage and Historic England)

Phoebe Medlicott-Revell

(Water Cultures in Conflict – Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship)

Rebecca Slatcher

(Indigenous Languages – AHRC CDA with the British Library Americas Collections)

TSRG Associates

Dr Hein Schoer

TSRG Alumni

Dr Rebecca Haboucha

Caroline Ward

Treaties Spaces Graduate Interns, 2022-23

Ellis Jammeh

Lewis Holmes

Leanne Massey

Christopher Moiser

Imogen Orton

Julian Heard

Yagazie Opara

Oluwaseyi Akinremi

Sukhmandeep Dhillon

Benjamin Wheldon

Treaties Spaces Graduate Interns, 2021-22

Henna Ali

Thomas Betts

Laura Birkinshaw

Libertyhavana Chelsea

Steve Dowen

Lili Strege

Christopher Williams