Gemma Romain is a historian who researches Caribbean and Black diasporic history.  From January 2012 she will be the Research Associate for the AHRC funded project Drawing over the Colour Line.

Gemma was the Vera Douie Fellow at the Women's Library during 2011, documenting interwar Black histories within the collections of the Women's Library and recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career fellowship at Newcastle University, carrying out a project entitled 'Negotiating Slavery and Freedom: petitioning and protest in the nineteenth century British Caribbean'. She has worked for various museums and archives including The National Archives, UK and and the National Maritime Museum and has taught in lifelong learning at Birkbeck College, University of London on the subject of Black hidden histories in museum and archival collections.

Her publications include Connecting Histories: A Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain (Kegan Paul, 2006) and co-edited with David Cesarani, Jews and Ports Cities, 1590-1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006).