Richard Huzzey
Postdoctoral Fellow, British Studies
Lecturer, History
Office: LUCE 333
Phone: (203) 432-8136
Email: richard.huzzey@yale.edu
Richard Huzzey completed his doctorate at St. Anne’s and St. Catherine’s Colleges, Oxford, where he was Light senior scholar. His thesis examined British anti-slavery after 1833, with a particular emphasis on the role of ‘an anti-slavery state’. He previously studied for his Master’s and BA degrees at St. Anne’s College.
His research and teaching interests cover a broad range of topics, including morality and consumption, the idea of national sin, and the relationship between abolitionism and laissez-faire. Richard is currently writing a book on British anti-slavery in the Victorian period, based on his doctoral research. He is also conducting research for a new project seeking to explain the emergence and success of abolitionism in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.
At Yale, he is teaching classes on politics, economics and morality in British anti-slavery, and on representation in British politics c.1640-1948.
