Professor Jeremy D. Popkin held a Visiting Fellowship with the National Centre of Biography from 17 July to 15 August 2012. He is the T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, USA. Popkin's scholarly interests include the history of the French and Haitian revolutions and autobiographical literature. His publications include You are all free: the Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010), Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789-1799 (1990) and History, Historians and Autobiography (2005).

As a visiting fellow he participated in the meeting of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) and worked closed with those involved in life-writing studies, including Paul Arthur, Rosalind Kennedy, Margareta Jolly, Brij Lal, and Barbara Caine. He gave a public seminar and held a workshop discussion with the staff of the Australian Dictionary of Biography project.