Dr. Hall is a Historian of the African Diaspora with a focus on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and History from Yale University. She is currently at work on a manuscript tentatively titled Strategic Ties: Family, Land, and Plantation Connections in Maroon Jamaica, which examines the formation of five Jamaican Maroon communities and their interactions with other peoples and groups in Jamaica from the Second Maroon War of the 1790s to the 1890s.

Parsing through intricate relationalities, Hall’s work traces how Maroon communities navigated a changing social, political, and economic world as Jamaica transitioned from slavery to free labour. Her research seeks to extend the history of these communities into the 1890s in order to understand how Maroons actively attempted to command their place in Jamaican society. Dr. Hall recently completed a Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice and John Carter Brown Library at Brown University for the 2023/2024 academic year.