Rate My Professor Stacey Hynd

Professor Stacey Hynd is Professor of African and Global History in the Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter, where she also serves as Dean of Postgraduate Research and the Doctoral College. She is the founder and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Research on Africa and co-director of the South-West and Wales Africa Network. Hynd studied Imperial and Global History at undergraduate and Master's levels at the University of Oxford before completing her DPhil in African History at the same institution in 2008 at St Cross College, supported by an AHRC Doctoral Scholarship and as a Beit Scholar in Commonwealth History. Prior to joining Exeter as a Lecturer in African History, she lectured in African and World History at the University of Cambridge. At Exeter, she progressed through roles including History Director of Postgraduate Research, Humanities Director of Postgraduate Research, and Humanities and Social Sciences Director of Postgraduate Research.

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.