Dr Aisha Djelid is a Departmental Lecturer in American History in the Faculty of History. She completed her BA (Hons), MA, and PhD at the University of Reading where she researched slavery and the forced reproduction of enslaved men and women in the antebellum South through the lens of gender, capitalism, and health. This research was published in American Nineteenth Century History, and will be published in full in a forthcoming monograph with the University of Georgia Press, which will explore intimate relationships, parenthood, health, marketisation, and the long-term legacies of forced reproduction.
She currently sits on the Association of British American Nineteenth Historians (BrANCH) committee as the Equality and Diversity Representative, where she organises the Harriet Tubman Prize and a mentoring scheme for postgraduate researchers and historians of the nineteenth century US.
Twitter: @aishadjelid
Publications:
“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808-1861, American Nineteenth Century History, vol. 25, no. 1 (2024), 21-43.
