Nona Martin is an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. She holds a MLIS from the University of South Florida, a MA in Public History from Loyola University and she is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Art History, George Mason University. She is coauthor, with Virgil Storr, of the articles «Demystifying Bay Street: Black Tuesday and the Radicalization of Bahamian Politics in the 1960s», The Journal of Caribbean History; «Whose Bay Street? Competing narratives of Nassau’s city center in the 20th century», Island Studies Journal; «On perverse emergent orders», Studies in Emergent Order; and «I’se a Man: Political Awakening and the 1942 Riot in the Bahamas» (with Virgil Henry Storr), The Journal of Caribbean History.