I am a historian of slavery, empire and Indigenous peoples in the United States. I completed my PhD at the University of Hull in 2019, and before joining King's, I lectured at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of York and the University of Cambridge. I joined King's Department of History in 2025. 

Teaching

I teach on a number of modules that relate to North American history, as well as several core skills modules. 

Expertise and public engagement

I have offered commentary to media outlets on the contemporary political situation in the U.S., with two examples listed below:

• Trump seeks to make the most of historic Georgia mugshot, BBC News, 2023.
• Donald Trump fait entrer James K. Polk, champion de l’impérialisme américain, dans le Bureau ovale, France 24, 2025.

I am also very interested in building connections between history school teachers and university lecturers, in an effort to understand shared challenges. To this end, I co-organised the 'Teaching History Now' conference at the University of Cambridge in May 2025.

Selected publications

• Mair, Edward. 'The Mildest Form Ever Known Upon Earth?': Reconsidering Racial Slavery in Seminole Society, 1800-1835, American Nineteenth Century History, (21/2) 2020: 109-128.
• Mair, Edward. “Shrewd and Sagacious” Middlemen: Black Go-Betweens in the Florida Borderlands, 1817-1836, Ethnohistory (71/2) 2024: 227-247.