Jacob M Ivey

Jacob Ivey is an Associate Professor of History at Florida Memorial University, South Florida’s only HBCU. He received his PhD from West Virginia University, and his research focuses on the British Empire in South Africa, state formation in nineteenth-century Southern Africa, and broader issues of race in relation to South Africa and the Black Diaspora in the United States and across the globe. He has published in numerous journals, including the South African Historical Journal, Britain and the World, Florida Historical Quarterly, and the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. He is the author of Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal, a work on the African constabulary in early Colonial Natal during the nineteenth century with Palgrave Macmillan’s “Britain and the World” series, anticipated publication in 2023. He is also working on a history of anti-apartheid movements in Florida in the 1980s, tentatively titled From Sun City to the Sunshine State: Florida and the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Supervisors: Katherine Aaslestad (Dissertation Advisor), Robert Maxon (Dissertation Advisor), Joseph Hodge (Dissertation Advisor), Robert Taylor (Former Supervisor), Lisa Perdigao (Former Supervisor), Jeri Kirby (Former Supervisor), and Frederick Hunter (Current Supervisor)