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