Carlie Manners

PhD Program (She/Her)
carlie.manners@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Atlantic World
  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Latin America and Caribbean
  • Religion and Society

Areas of Interest

History of Ethnography; Cultural Theory; Material and Visual Culture; Museum Collections and Curation; Colonialism and Imperialism; Caribbean Religious and Spiritual Practices

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Caribbean and Latin American History

Minor 1

Race, Slavery, and Black Atlantic Culture in North America

Minor 2

Gender and Sexuality in the Atlantic World

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Melanie Newton
Max Mishler
Heidi Bohaker
Tamara Walker

Biography

Carlie Manners is a historian specializing in the Caribbean and Anglo-Atlantic World. Her research interests are centered around the material culture of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous Caribbean communities, as well as the dynamics of imperial collecting. Her unique perspective on these topics is informed by her experience working in museums and art galleries.

Carlie is particularly interested in exploring the racial politics of imperial collecting in the nineteenth century Anglo-Atlantic, and how these dynamics continue to shape our understanding of Caribbean and Anglo-Atlantic history today. Her work is grounded in a deep respect for the complex and diverse cultural traditions of the region, and she is committed to using her research to promote greater understanding and appreciation of these rich histories.

Awards

  • Pekka K. Sinervo Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2022-2023
  • Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), University of Toronto, 2019-2023
  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Unviersity of New Brunswick 2018-2019
  • Magee Third Century Postgraduate Merit Award, Univerisity of New Brunswick, 2018-2019
  • New Brunswick Innovation Foundation Award, Univerisity of New Brunswick, 2017-2019
  • Beaverbrook Scholarship (Graduate Scholar), Univerisity of New Brunswick, 2017-2018

Education

MA, University of New Brunswick
PGCert (Museum and Gallery Studies), Georgian College
BA (Hons.), Algoma University

Cohort

  • 2019-2020