Ronald (Trey) Sullivan III
Trey (Newton, MA) is currently pursuing a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral work focuses on the legal structures that shaped formerly enslaved people’s access to property ownership and land use in the Caribbean and American South during the mid to late nineteenth century. Last year, Trey completed an MPhil in World History at the University of Cambridge, graduating with Distinction and earning the Johnston Prize for Postgraduate Studies. He was also awarded a Prize Research Fellowship at the Centre for History and Economics.
Prior to arriving in the UK, Trey graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in History & Literature and a language citation in French. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, Trey also received the Lucy Allen Paton Prize for excellence in the Humanities and Fine Arts, which is awarded each year to a member of Harvard’s junior and senior classes, respectively, who shows the greatest promise in those fields. At Harvard, Trey was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow, Chair of the Politics of Race & Ethnicity program at the Institute of Politics, and co-founder of Harvard’s premier Black literary magazine, Indigo.
After completing his PhD, Trey plans to matriculate at Harvard Law School, where he has already gained admission through the Junior Deferral Program.