Huw David

Huw David joined Wolfson in April 2019 after serving as Development Director of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford’s department for teaching and research in American history, politics and culture, where he led and managed the Institute's multi-million-pound fundraising campaign.

His first book, Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic Commerce, 1730-1790, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in November 2018. It received the 2018 George C. Rogers Jr. Prize for the best book of South Carolina history, given by the South Carolina Historical Society. The manuscript of the book was awarded the Hines Prize in 2015 by the College of Charleston, given biennially for the best first manuscript on a topic relating to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. His writing appears in several academic journals including Global Networks, the Journal of Southern History, the South Carolina Historical Magazine, and Action Learning: Research and Practice. He has held visiting fellowships at institutions including the University of South Carolina and the Huntington Library, Los Angeles.

He is a Trustee of Sulgrave Manor, the Northamptonshire home of George Washington’s ancestors and is a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Benjamin Franklin House, London, and a judge of the Benjamin Franklin House literary prize. He is an Affiliate Faculty Member at the College of Charleston's Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World (CLAW) Program, has been Wells Fargo Distinguished Public Lecturer at the same College, and has worked with with Tate Britain on a major new assessment of one of Thomas Gainsborough’s early portraits. He is a Governor of a local village primary school and a member of the school's resources and finance committee.