Steve teaches courses in world history, including the Worlds of Christopher Columbus, the transatlantic slave trade and the history of migration.
He wrote his MA thesis and PhD dissertation on the 18th Century British slave trade and has expertise in social (but not cultural), economic and political history in the following research areas:
◾transatlantic slave trade (maritime, economic)
◾Atlantic history, including pre-colonial Africa
◾Industrial Revolution
◾Liverpool/Lancashire history
◾maritime history
◾medical history
◾British Empire
◾quantitative methods
◾Digital Humanities.