Adom Philogene Heron

I am an ethnographer and grandchild of the Caribbean whose work spans: (I) Black & indigenous ecologies, hurricanes survivals & repair (II) the material & affective afterlives of Bristolian slavery (III) Caribbean kinship & fatherhood Methodologically, I'm committed to collaborative & experimental ethnographies (exploring digital mapping, archives, visual & sonic methods, and Caribbean poetics). My scholarly practice seeks the 'grounding' of live questions – on environmental justice, how we remember slavery and Caribbean kinship – in public dialogue. From 2019-2023 I led the GCRF Surviving Storms | CCC project, which used multimodal research to map/archive hurricane adaptation, survivals & repair in Dominica. I am currently part of an AHRC Mission team that utilises film and museum curation to track the undead past of enslavement accross the Atlantic world - from Ghana to Brasil, Dominica and the UK (2025-28). My work features in Antipode, JRAI, Transforming Anthropology, Sargasso, Suomen Antropologi, Ethos, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, SAA Archaeological Record, Public Books, numerous edited books and readers, and I have spoken several multimodal platforms, including: ODI's Small Islands Big Picture, Surviving Society [ Pt. I + Pt. II ], Dis a fi mi History, Geographies of Risk , Mandem x Barbican + Conversations With Anthropologists. Recent publications: Plotting Survival [Plurivers] Pedagogies of Survival [Chapter, Handbook of Caribbean Studies] What Exactly is a Family Man? [Ethos] Still Standing [Book, Papillotte Press] Surviving Maria [Transforming Anthropology] In the hurricane’s path [Archaeological Record] The ti kai Project. Craft. Collaboration. Care [Sargasso] Abyssal Ethnography? [SJTG] Goodnight Colston [Antipode] Homing Empire [Public Books] Blood Speaks [JRAI] Becoming Papa [vol. chapter] Coming to Terms with Caribbean Families [vol. chapter] I am a co-founder of Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio & a member of Bristol Centre for Black Humanities collectives. From 2017-2022 I worked as a Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. Before that I held a post-doc (2017) at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), School of Advanced Study, University of London - where I developed the Caribbean Studies Collection for Senate House Library. Education PhD, Social Anthropology [St Andrews, 2017] MRes, Social Anthropology [St Andrews, 2012] BA, Social Anthropology and Development Studies [Sussex, 2010] PhD Students Rambisayi Marufu - Intimate Geographies: Weaving Threads of Diasporic Intimacy In Black Women's Spaces of Hair Care in London (CHASE funded - external, Goldsmiths University) Alice Clough - Telling Different Stories. Exploring and interrogating acts of interpretation in commercial archaeology settings (funded by AHRC Collaborative PhD program - Museum of London and Univeristy of Bristol) I welcome PhD students with interests in Caribbean and Afro Diasporic worlds; as well as those with thematic interests in Black ecologies, kinship, slavery's afterlives, or multimodal / collaborative methods. To learn more about applying - click here.

[11/03/2025] Pedagogies of Survival [07/05/2025] What exactly is a family man? [01/02/2024] Plotting Survival (To Live in the Hurricane's Path) [01/01/2023] The Ti Kai Project [01/05/2023] Abyssal geographies