Esme Cleall is Senior Lecturer in the History of the British Empire, University of Sheffield, UK. She is author of Colonising Disability: impairment and otherness in Britain and its empire, c. 1800-1914 (2022) and Missionary Discourses of Difference: negotiating otherness in the British empire, 1840-1900 (2012). Her work focuses on regimes of difference and the colonial construction and experience of power focusing on ideas about race and disability.