Diana Paton

Paton began her academic career as a junior research fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford. In 2000, she joined Newcastle University as a lecturer.^[3][4] She was promoted to Reader in Caribbean History in 2008, and to Professor of Caribbean History in 2015.^[3] In July 2016, she moved to the University of Edinburgh where she had been appointed to the William Robertson Chair of History.^[3][4]

She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)^[5] and an editor of History Workshop Journal.^[6]

• Paton, Diana (2001). "Punishment, Crime, and the Bodies of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica". Journal of Social History. 34 (4): 923–954. doi:10.1353/jsh.2001.0066. ISSN 0022-4529. JSTOR 3789424. PMID 18754158. S2CID 29531689.
• Paton, Diana (2004). No bond but the law: punishment, race, and gender in Jamaican state formation, 1780-1870. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822334011.
• Scully, Pamela; Paton, Diana, eds. (2005). Gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic world. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822335816.
• Paton, Diana (2012). Obeah and other powers: the politics of Caribbean religion and healing. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822351337.
• Paton, Diana (2015). The cultural politics of Obeah: religion, colonialism and modernity in the Caribbean world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107025653.
• Paton, Diana; Smith, Matthew J., eds. (2021). The Jamaica reader: history, culture, politics. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1478010494.