Rate My Professor Stacey Hynd

Hynd's research focuses on modern African history, with interdisciplinary perspectives from anthropology, politics, and law, particularly on conflict, humanitarianism, crime, law, punishment, and the death penalty in British colonial Africa, as well as histories of children and youth in armed conflict. She has published extensively, including the monograph Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915–60 (Bloomsbury, 2024). Her articles have appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of African History, Humanity, Gender & History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. Notable publications include 'Killing the Condemned: The Practice and Process of Capital Punishment in British Africa, 1900–1950s' (Journal of African History, 2008), 'Trauma, Violence, and Memory in African Child Soldier Memoirs' (2021), and 'Youth, Gender and Generation in Colonial Insurgencies and Counterinsurgency, c.1954–59' (2021). She is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded 'Children of War: Evolving Local and Global Perspectives on Child Soldiering in Africa' project. Hynd welcomes PhD applications on children and youth in armed conflict across humanities and social sciences disciplines.