Kate is Associate Professor of Caribbean History at the UCL Institute of the Americas. Previously, she headed the Caribbean programme at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, which she joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and subsequently Lecturer in Modern History in 2005. She served for many years on the Committee of the Society for Caribbean Studies and was Chair of the Society from 2012-2014. She has also served as Chair of the Haiti Support Group, a UK-based advocacy organisation, and remains a regular member. Dr Quinn’s research focuses on the post-war history of the Caribbean. Thematic interests include democracy and governance in the post-independence Anglophone Caribbean; Black Power and the Caribbean left; Caribbean intellectual traditions; and interactions between political, intellectual and cultural movements across the region. Her publications include Beyond Westminster in the Caribbean (2018), with Brian Meeks; Black Power in the Caribbean (2014); and Politics and Power in Haiti (2013), with Paul Sutton. She is currently working on an edited volume on 1968 in the Americas, and a monograph on Black Power and Radical Politics in the Caribbean.