JMS Network: Dr Shantel George and Taylar Carty
An Black History Month special in-conversation seminar with Dr Shantel George and PhD student in History, Taylar Carty.
JMS Network
Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Category: Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Speaker: Dr Shantel George
The JMS Network is a programme of monthly events centring the Black experience and working as a platform to facilitate discussion and build networks between those inside and outside of academia. The overall aim of the Network is to create a protected space to engage with experts and build a community of people from various fields. Each month hosts a Q&A session with an invited speaker to discuss their work, followed by refreshments and networking. These are held on the last Thursday of every month.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Shantel George to our JMS Network Event, from 6-8pm on Thursday 30 October 2025 in Kelvin Hall Seminar Room 1. She will be joined by JMS Scholar, Taylar Carty who is an Arts & Humanities researcher in History.
Shantel George is a Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, specialising in trans-Atlantic slavery and emancipation, with a focus on the British Caribbean. She earned her PhD from SOAS, University of London, in 2017. Her first book, The Yoruba are on A Rock: Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada, will be published by Cambridge University Press in September 2025. Shantel is the Principal Investigator for an AHRC-funded impact project that seeks to deepen and transform public understandings of African religions in Grenada. Her second book project explores the global history of the African kola nut, emphasising its interlocking histories of healing and well-being across several sites from 1500 to the present, and has been supported by fellowships from The John Carter Brown Library (2022), Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (2023), and Princeton University's Crossroads Project (2025). Shantel’s published work appears in Atlantic Studies, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, and several edited book collections.