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Andrea Livesey is an academic and historian, specialising in slavery and its legacies in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is currently Senior Lecturer in US history at Liverpool John Moores University.

Career
Livesey studied Comparative American Studies at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 2006. After teaching English in Japan, she returned to the University of Liverpool for her Master's degree in Atlantic History, which she completed in 2008.

Held fellowships at the University of New York, University of New Orleans and the University of Georgia.

2015 PhD University of Liverpool thesis on the sexual exploitation and abuse of enslaved women in Louisiana and Texas from 1803-1865.

In 2016, began working at the University of Bristol, before becoming Senior Lecturer in US History at LJMU in 2018.

Dr Livesey has offered commentary on contemporary racial issues and legacies of slavery to BBC radio, NPR (US), and a number of national newspapers.

Dr Livesey is the founding chair of the ‘Regional Centre for American Studies’ (RCAS North-West), a fellow of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) and has recently become the postgraduate representative for British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH).

Dr Livesey has links to the Universities Studying Slavery network, and has spoken at a UNESCO conference in the US on British Universities and Slavery.

Research for her second book, funded by the British Academy, was completed in October 2019. This project is a critical collection of unpublished interviews with formerly enslaved people from Louisiana, including 121 transcripts of interviews located in Louisiana archives and four significant chapters on the Louisiana Writers’ Project.

Selected Works

 * Conceived in violence: enslaved mothers and children born of rape in nineteenth-century Louisiana Slavery & Abolition, 38:2, 373-391 (2017)
 * Race, Slavery, and the Expression of Sexual Violence in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon American Nineteenth Century History, 19:3, 267-288 (2018)