Anne-Marie Angelo (she/her) is an Associate Professor of American History in the Department of History and Centre for American Studies. She is a historian of transnational flows of capital and culture and their relationships to racial formations. These interests coalesce around the global Black Power movement, the financing of the transatlantic slave trade, and histories of settler colonialism and imperialism. She also examines popular perceptions of American racism and African-American history outside the United States. 

For the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Anne-Marie has recently completed a research project examining 19th century banker and philanthropist George Peabody and his connections to slavery. Born and raised in the U.S., Peabody lived and worked in the UK from 1837 to 1869. The Peabody Institute was the first music conservatory in the United States. The research has found that Peabody earned significant wealth from his banking, business, and commerce engagements with slavery. A report detailing these findings has been published here.

Her monograph Black Power on the Move is forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press. The book is based on oral histories she and others have conducted with British and Mizrahi Black Panthers; photographs taken from within those movements; movement newspapers; and sources external to the movements, including intelligence reports and police records. It reframes the Black Panthers as a transnational movement of displaced imperialized people resisting local and national structures that fostered racism in housing, education, and employment.

Anne-Marie has written on the history of the British Black Panthers for Radical History Review, The Journal of Civil and Human Rights, and The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States (eds. Robin D.G. Kelley and Stephen Tuck). With Professor Kira Thurman (Michigan), she co-commissioned and co-edited the African American Intellectual History Society’s “Black Europe” blog series. With Sussex colleague Dr Tom Adam Davies, she co-authored an article on U.S. economic policy toward sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War for The Sixties. Her work has also appeared in the exhibition catalogues Paris-Londres, la musique au rythme des migrations: Music Migrations 1962-1989 (Musée National de L’Histoire de L’Immigration, Paris) and Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool (Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina).

Anne-Marie's teaching and mentoring have been recognised with the University of Sussex's Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching; the Duke University's Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring (two Ph.D. students annually from across the university); and Sussex's Student-Nominated Award for Outstanding Support for the Learning Experience of Students.

Her work has garnered competitive funding from institutions including the University of Sussex's AHRC/IAA impact award fund; the British Association for American Studies; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg; the Humanities, Arts, Science & Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Fellowship; the Duke University Women's Studies Research Travel Award; the Anne Firor Scott Research Award; Yale University's American Studies Department; and three consecutive competitive academic year Title VI Area Studies fellowships in Middle East Studies and Arabic, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI National Resource Center programme. 

Anne-Marie obtained her AM and PhD in History from Duke University and her BA in American Studies from the University of Virginia. She is the proud daughter of a fifth-generation Irish-American New Yorker.