Professor Meleisa Ono-George

Dr Meleisa Ono-George
Brittenden Fellow and Associate Professor
The Queens College
meleisa.ono-george@history.ox.ac.uk

I am a social-cultural historian of race and gender, with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean. I am interested in the everyday ways people oppressed within society negotiate and navigate structures of power and inequality, as well as the legacies and politics of writing such histories within contemporary society. I am also interested in community-engaged research practices, as well as creative and Caribbean storytelling methodologies.

My current project is a book entitled, My Name is Amelia Newsham: Science, Art and the Making of Race, forthcoming from Viking Books.

 

 

 

Teaching

I am happy to supervise undergraduate and masters' projects related to histories of race, gender and sexuality in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century. I welcome potential doctoral (PhD) students interested in researching intellectual histories of race, specifically 'blackness' in Britain, or social-cultural histories of people of African ancestry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

 

I currently teach:

Prelims

 FHS

History of British Isles

Bodies and Emotions

Approaches to History