Lucy Stark

Lucy Stark is a History PhD student in the Transnational, Global, and International (TIG) field with a focus on French colonialism in the Caribbean, Louisiana, and West Africa. She has written on the exploitation of women of color in civil rights debates in late 18th century Saint-Domingue. More recently, she researched the apprenticeship of free children of color in New Orleans. These children were born in Saint-Domingue and Cuba and immigrated to Louisiana in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution. 

Lucy is a Graduate Student Co-Chair of the Slavery & Freedom Workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center. She has also worked on historical documentary films to highlight stories of overlooked men and women of the past. She hopes to use her interest in filmmaking and public history to share academic research with a wider audience.