Dr Charles Prior

BIOGRAPHY

Charles Prior is a professor of history at the University of Hull. He leads two large collaborative projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom: ‘Brightening the Covenant Chain’, which concludes in 2025, and ‘Historic Houses, Global Crossroads’, a 36 month project that began in September 2024. His research focus is on treaties as instances of cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty. With support from a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2017-18), he completed Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America (Cambridge University Press, 2020). It foregrounds Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty and power to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history.