Trevor Graeme Burnard (15 October 1960 – 19 July 2024) was a New Zealand historian and professor of history at the University of Hull, where he was the Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation .[1] He was a specialist in the history of slavery in the Atlantic world.[2] He was formerly at the University of Warwick[3] and the University of Melbourne.[4] He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Slavery and Abolition.[5] Burnard died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 63.[6]