CONTRIBUTOR:

Natalie Zacek

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Senior Lecturer

DEPARTMENT:

American Studies

INSTITUTION:

University of Manchester

BIOGRAPHY:

Natalie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. Her first monograph, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands (Cambridge University Press, 2010) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize. She is currently completing a book about the cultural history of horse-racing in the nineteenth-century United States.