Imaobong Umoren

Imaobong Umoren is a historian specialising in the histories of colonialism, race, gender, and political thought in the Caribbean, Britain, and the United States. Currently an Associate Professor of International History at The London School of Economics and Political Science, she received her DPhil from the University of Oxford and has served as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. Her research has received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Leverhulme Fund, and Royal Historical Society, among others.

Imaobong is the author of the award-winning book Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles (2018). Her forthcoming book, Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean, is set to be published by Fern Press and Vintage in the UK and Scribner in the US in June 2025. This project received the Eccles Centre at The British Library Hay Festival Writer's Award for 2020-2021. She is also completing a political biography of Eugenia Charles, the first female prime minister in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Her work has extended into media, with appearances on Bloomberg Radio in May 2023 discussing the Monarchy and the Commonwealth and on the BBC TV program Fake or Fortune in 2018. She delivered a talk on BBC Radio 3’s The Essay in September 2018 on African American history and appeared on BBC News in 2015 discussing Rachel Dolezal. In addition, she has been invited to deliver public lectures at prestigious institutions in the UK and internationally, including LSE, University of Oxford, Leeds, Modern Art Oxford, the Houses of Parliament, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, the German Historical Institute, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden.

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