My DPhil research focuses on enslaved women in the antebellum South, particularly how they interacted with and were treated by female enslavers. I’m also interested in how enslaved women experienced domestic space, and how the plantation house could be a site of resistance as well as horror and suffering. This project is an expansion of my MSt research, also completed at Oxford.
My undergraduate degree was in History and German; I spent my third year on an Erasmus+ scholarship to the University of Bamberg in southern Germany, taking classes in German and teaching an English conversation class. After I finished my master’s in US History, I spent three years working for a national charity that helps students from underserved communities to get into university. I’m keen to do more of this kind of work alongside my doctoral studies.
