Professor Emily West
Professor of Early American History
Brasenose College
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in issues of race and gender in American history and my research focusses on US slavery in the US South, especially the lives of enslaved women, the relationships between enslaved spouses, family life under enslavement, and affective ties between enslaved people and free people of colour. I am also interested in motherhood and the history of infant and child feeding, including wet nursing.
