Meet the Mellon Fellows: Dr. Tayzhaun Glover

Dr. Tayzhaun Glover

Duke University
PhD, History

Host Site: Partnership between NPS Chesapeake Gateways, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, and the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Fellowship Title: Black Red Coats on the Chesapeake Bay: Freedom Seeking Soldiers from Tangier to Trinidad
Project Description: Dr. Glover will research and interpret the legacy of enslaved people who joined the Colonial Marines during the War of 1812. He will expand limited existing research on the African American individuals, families, and descendants of soldiers who joined British forces to gain freedom from enslavement. Research will focus on the origins of these individuals, the places they escaped, and their lives after the war, including the experiences of their descendants from the Chesapeake to Trinidad.

Bio:

Dr. Tayzhaun Glover attended Franklin & Marshall College and received a BA in 2017 with a joint major in Africana Studies and Anthropology and a minor in French. He then attended Duke University where he received an MA in History in 2021. Tayzhaun received a US-France Fulbright Award for his graduate work at Duke. He was the 2023-2024 Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Duke History and African and African American Studies Departments, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies provided financial support for Tayzhaun’s research.

Tell us about your research interests!

I am interested primarily in the mobility practices of enslaved men, women, and children seeking refuge, liberty, and freedom in the Caribbean and the Americas, more broadly. My research engages with questions about labor, geography, law, and European and Indigenous sovereignty as I try to understand how enslaved people conceptualized refuge, liberty, and freedom based on their geopolitical knowledge of their worlds.

What are you most excited about as you begin your fellowship?

I am most excited about learning new skills and methods for making history more accessible to public audiences.

Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

This project was made possible through the National Park Service by a grant from the National Park Foundation through generous support from the Mellon Foundation. The Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship program is administered through a partnership between NPS, NPF, and American Conservation Experience.