Klarke Stricklen is a writer and historian of women’s history. Her DPhil research centralizes enslaved women to the story of compensated emancipation in North America and the British Caribbean. She recently received a Master of Studies in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oxford, where her dissertation focused on enslaved women and the compensated emancipation scheme in Jamaica.
Klarke graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with a B.A. in American Studies. She hopes to contribute meaningfully to conversations on silence, memory, and reparations through her project, Our Bodies Built the World. Her DPhil research is funded through The Rhodes Trust.
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