London (UCL) in 1998, and was Principal Investigator of the "Legacies of British Slave Ownership" and "Structure and Significance of British-Caribbean Slave Ownership, 1763–1833" research projects. She retired from her professorship on 31 July 2016. she is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at UCL and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, on which she has worked since 2009. Awards and recognition 2016: Offered the Dan David Prize from the Dan David Foundation in Tel Aviv, Israel, which included a £225,000 research fund; however, in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in, Hall rejected the award, stating that it was "an independent political choice" to do so. 2018: elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) 2019: Honorary degree from the University of York 2021: Leverhulme Medal, awarded by the British Academy "in recognition of Professor Hall’s impact across modern and contemporary British history, particularly in the fields of class, gender, empire and postcolonial history" Personal life Hall met her future husband, cultural theorist and activist Stuart Hall, on a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament march in the early 1960s, and the two would go on to marry in 1964. The couple had a daughter, Becky, and son, Jess, and the family lived in Birmingham. Stuart was Jamaican, and with mixed-race children, Catherine was aware of the legacy of British colonialism before commencing her academic work on the topic. Stuart died in 2014. In May 2016, Hall donated 3,000 books from his library to Housmans bookshop. Published works Books Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850 (1987, new edition 2002, with Leonore Davidoff) White, Male And Middle-Class: Explorations In Feminism And History (1992) Gendered Nations: Nationalisms And Gender Order In The Long Nineteenth Century (2000 editor, with Ida Blom and Karen Hagemann) Defining The Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender And The British Reform Act Of 1867 (2000, editor, with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall) Cultures Of Empire: Colonisers In Britain And The Empire In Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries (2000, editor) Civilising Subjects: Metropole And Colony In The English Imagination, 1830–1867 (2002) Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present (2010, editor, with Keith McClelland) Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012) Articles (Full text can also be requested via Researchgate.) References External links UCL Staff Profile 1946 births Living