Meleisa Ono-George

Meleisa is Associate Professor and Brittenden Fellow in Black British History at Queen’s College, Oxford. Meleisa is a social-cultural historian of race and gender, with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean. She is 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. Her current research focuses on the life of an Afro-Jamaican woman in late eighteenth-century Jamaica and Britain and the archival remnants of her life. Meleisa is also currently developing a community-engaged project which looks at the history of Black mothering in Britain and the use of creative storytelling. Both of these projects draw upon her strong interest in community-engaged and Caribbean research methodologies.