Hannah McGurk

Hannah is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Archaeology and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Her PhD is a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership funded through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the University of Cambridge, centred on the Caribbean collections of the MAA.

She earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, where studied Black feminist methodologies and postcolonial literature. Hannah received her MA in Cultural History from the University of Liverpool, where she was awarded the International Slavery Studies Scholarship (2024) and Andrew Douglas History MA Prize (2025) for her research on the environmental history of the ‘Windrush’ generation. Hannah has contributed to various initiatives led by students, communities and institutions concerned with British legacies of colonialism in education and the heritage sector. She has most recently worked with the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.