About
I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the intersecting histories of race and womanhood in the latter decades of the twentieth century. I did my BA in History and French at the University of Leeds (2014) and my MA in Modern History at UCL (2016). I completed my PhD in History from the University of Manchester in 2021, where I wrote my dissertation titled, 'Race, motherhood, and multiculturalism: the making of female identities in the British inner city, c. 1970-1990'.
I am interested in how race, racial thinking, and racism have shaped, and continue to shape, women's lives in modern Britain. In particular, my research has focused on large-scale immigration in the immediate post-war decades from the New Commonwealth, and women's actions and identities within this context. I am fascinated by women's everyday lives and how these lives are bound up with the politics of race. My PhD thesis explored the experiences and activism of Black women in Britain and how they mobilised around issues such as housing, motherhood, policing, and feminism. My new project (in its very early stages!) is largely about how white women shaped and contributed to racist and fascist discourses in post-war Britain, as well as how they constructed notions of 'whiteness' and white superiority.
I welcome PhD supervision enquiries from any student interested in pursuing a doctorate related to any of the above themes.
I am also interested in questions to do with researcher positionality and historical ethics in relation to the study of race, which I have written about here.