Christine is a scholar of women, gender, and slavery in the Atlantic World with expertise in the Caribbean. Her first book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire, is the first systematic study of the free and freed women who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the early modern era. Christine is working on a second book project, “Imperial Kin,” which tracks several families that converted early investments in Caribbean slavery into global command. It starts in the 1640s, when Royalist and Catholic predecessors fled to America during the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. These groups transformed the tiny islands of Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat, and Nevis into new bases of power. The families intermarried, creating sprawling kinship networks where money, estates, titles, and political positions were concentrated. Moving beyond microhistories and case studies, “Imperial Kin” offers an empirically robust account of the intimate dimensions of the colonial rule exercised by groups that effectively used marriage, reproduction, parenting, and elite education to monopolize political authority in America. For more than two centuries, the labor of thousands of enslaved people contributed to the meteoric rise of the families.