Professor Meleisa Ono-George
Brittenden Fellow and Associate Professor
The Queens College
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.
Publications
DPhil Students
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.
In the Media
- 29 November 2018 - My favourite place: Jamaica - BBC History Magazine
28 August 2020 - You're Dead to me (Notting Hill Carnival) - BBC Radio 4
13 July 2018 - Historical consultancy for Andrea Levy’s The Long Song - BBC/Heyday
25 May 2018 - Front Row Late with Mary Beard (S2, Ep6) - BBC 2
13 January 2021 - Free Thinking (Women & Slavery)- BBC Radio 4