William James Carter

I am a PhD Candidate and Fulbright Scholar from SE London, England, in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Berkeley Black Geographies Project.

As a historical geographer of the Black Atlantic, I combine methods of Black geographic inquiry and Atlantic history to investigate the aquatic histories of the Atlantic world and the transatlantic slave trade.

My dissertation project ‘Navigating Black Waters and White Fears: re-thinking racialisation in the transatlantic slave trade’ examines how racialisation and the association of Blackness and danger, and whiteness and fear emerged in the riverine, littoral waterscapes of West Africa, and the slave ship.