Diana Paton, FRHistS (born 1969) is a British historian and academic.
She previously worked at The Queen's College, Oxford and Newcastle University, where she rose to be Professor of Caribbean History before moving to Edinburgh.
[1] Her doctoral thesis was submitted in 1999, and was titled "No bond but the law: punishment and justice in Jamaica's age of emancipation, 1780-1870".
[2] Paton began her academic career as a junior research fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford.
[3] In July 2016, she moved to the University of Edinburgh where she had been appointed to the William Robertson Chair of History.