Specialism > Gender History

Articles

The Conversation

A brief history of dyslexia and the role women played in getting it recognised

News

Launch of Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO)

Mameluca woman under a fruiting cashew tree (1641-44)

New MSt/MPhil in History Strand - Women’s, Gender and Queer History

The Faculty is delighted to announce that, from 2021, we will be offering a new strand in our MSt/MPhil in History.

Student Blogs

Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi by Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, 1540. Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.

A hairy relationship: facial hair and gender

Prize-winning research on women’s history

Lizzie Evens is from Baldock, Hertfordshire (where she attended a state comprehensive school) and studied History at New College.

Academics

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Dr Kudakwashe Chitofiri

Departmental Lecturer in African History

Professor Martin Conway

Professor Martin Conway

Professor of Contemporary European History

Balliol College

Professor Matt Cook

Professor Matt Cook

Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality

Mansfield College

Professor Christina de Bellaigue

Professor Christina de Bellaigue

Associate Professor of Modern History

Professor Jane Garnett

Professor Jane Garnett

Tutor in Modern History

Worcester College

Professor Bob Harris

Professor of British History

Worcester College

Professor Ruth Harris

Professor Ruth Harris

Professor of Modern History

All Souls College

Professor David Hopkin

Professor David Hopkin

Professor of European Social History

Hertford College

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Dr Lyndsey Jenkins

Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in History

Mansfieldman College

Professor Geraldine A. Johnson

Professor Geraldine A. Johnson

Associate Professor of the History of Art; Fellow of Christ Church

Professor Yasmin Khan

Professor of Modern History

Kellogg College

Dr Conrad Leyser

Dr Conrad Leyser

Associate Professor of Medieval History

Worcester College

Professor Julia Mannherz

Professor Julia Mannherz

Associate Professor of Modern History

Professor James McDougall

Professor James McDougall

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History

Trinity College

Professor Maria Misra

Professor of Global History | Fellow of Keble College

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie

Chichele Professor of Economic History

Dr Meleisa Ono-George

Professor Meleisa Ono-George

Brittenden Fellow and Associate Professor

The Queens College

Professor Katherine Paugh

Professor Katherine Paugh

Associate Professor of Atlantic World Women's History

Corpus Christi College

Dr Siân Pooley

Tutor in Modern British History

Magdalen College

Professor Lyndal Roper

Professor Lyndal Roper

Regius Professor of History

Dr Hannah Skoda

Dr Hannah Skoda

Associate Professor of Medieval History

St John's College

Professor Julia Smith

Professor Julia Smith

Chichele Professor of Medieval History

All Souls College

Dr Hannah Smith

Dr Hannah Smith

Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Early Modern British History

St Hilda's College

Dr George Southcombe

Dr George Southcombe

Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme, and Fellow by Special Election in History

Professor Brenda Stevenson

Professor Brenda E Stevenson

Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History

St John's College

Professor Selina Todd

Professor Selina Todd

Professor of Modern History

St Hilda's College

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Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince

Sanderson Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Modern History

University College

Emeriti

Professor Kathryn Gleadle

Professor Kathryn Gleadle

Professor of Gender and Women's History

Mansfield College

Professor Dan Healey

Professor Dan Healey

Professor of Modern Russian History

St Antony's College

Professor Jane Humphries

Professor Jane Humphries

Professor of Economic History (retired)

All Souls College

Professor Deborah Oxley

Professor Deborah Oxley

Professor of Social Science History

All Souls College

Graduate students

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Maayan (Maaian) Aner

Antonia Anstatt

Antonia Anstatt

Barnabas Balint

Barnabas Balint

Magdalen College

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Leonie Bramwell

Clare Burgess

University College

Zara Christmas

Lincoln College

Anna Clark

St John's College

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Eszter D Kovacs

Hollie Eaton

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Julia Gustavsson

Mary Hitchman

Wolfson College

Bee Jones

Beth Kitson

Aaron Larsen

Fleur MacInnes

Christ Church College

Elena Mary

Wolfson College

Ailsa Maxwell

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Samantha McCormack

Magdalen College

Tomajin Morikawa

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate

St. Catherine's College, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Kirsty Peacock

Laura Roberts

Elena Rossi

Magdalen College

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Alice Spiers

St Anne's College

Kate Rebecca Stanton

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Emma Teworte

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Amanda Westcott

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Rozen Whitworth

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Helena Winterhager

Lincoln College

Outreach Tutors

Hannah Ezer

MPhil History - Women's, Gender and Queer History

Faculty of History

Freya Willis

MPhil in Modern British History

Researchers

Dr Priya Atwal

Community History Fellow

Dr Lia Brazil

Research Fellow

Nuffield College

Dr David Damtar

Turpin Junior Research Fellow in History

St Cross College and Oriel College

Dr Natalia Doan

Dr Natalia Doan

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies

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Dr Jack Doyle

Research Associate: The Public's Health: The Methods, Ethics, and History of Public Health in Moving Images

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Dr Kristine Dyrmann

Junior Research Fellow

Linacre College

Dr Julie Farguson

College Lecturer in Early Modern History

St Hilda's College

Dr Deirdre Foley

Dr Deirdre Foley

Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellow

Hertford College

Dr Sally Frampton

Dr Sally Frampton

Humanities and Healthcare Fellow

TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities

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Dr Grace Heaton

Stipendiary Lecturer in History

Mansfield College

Dr Meryem Kalayci

Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci

CDF in Women's History

Pembroke College

Dr Urvi Khaitan

Associate Member

Richard Lesmoir Gordon

Dr Richard Lesmoir-Gordon

Postdoctoral Associate Member

St Antony's College

Dr Kiran Mehta

Stipendiary Lecturer in History

Worcester College

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Dr Nora Yitong Qiu

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Dr Emily Rutherford

Junior Research Fellow

Corpus Christi College

Dr Helen Sunderland

Dr Helen Sunderland

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Faculty of History

Cecilia Tarruell

Dr Cecilia Tarruell

Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellow in European History 1500–1800

Dr Jonathan Taylor

Dr Jonathan Taylor

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Magdalen College

Noe Vagner Clevenot

Noé Vagner-Clévenot

Postdoctoral Associate Member

Events

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Astor Lecture 2022: Surviving Illicit Pregnancy in Late Medieval France

Nazrin Shah Auditorium, Worcester College

Gender Equality in Oxford: How Far Have We Come?

The Oxford Martin School

© Young Lives/Antonio Fiorente

Girls, travel and global issues: multi-disciplinary perspectives

Seminar West, Garden Building, Mansfield College, Oxford

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History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Launch: 'Bad Gays' with Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad, Exeter College

LGBT History Month event 2020

History Faculty, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL

One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Where to Next?

One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Where to Next?

Morden Hall, St Hugh's College

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Professor Antoinette Burton: ‘The Scorpion’s Lash: Gender and the Making of an Imperial Anthropocene in Victorian Afghanistan’

Blue Boar lecture theatre, Christ Church College

'Painting of the First Fruits', Johann Valentin Haidt (1747)

Special Faculty Lecture: “Decently-Clad Women and Trousered Men". The Missionary and the Body

Professor Philippa Levine

Online via Zoom

The 2018 James Ford History Workshop: Women’s History in Britain and Ireland

TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford. 9.30-20.00

Outreach Tutor Articles

4th Century Christ

Late Antique Opportunities? The Case of Marcella

Studying Early Modern Cities: What Space Can Teach Us About Social Histories

Aurelia (Fazio’s Mistress), 1863–1873

The female body through the ages - do necks have a history?

Women’s Experiences at the First Coeducational College at the University of Oxford

Women’s Experiences at the First Coeducational College at the University of Oxford

Oxford Historian Articles

Dr Turnbull examining the Hoskins portrait

Locating Women’s Agency in Early Modern Spaces: Knowledge Exchange, History and Heritage

Dr Emma Turnbull

Maude Gonne McBride founder of Inghinidhe na hÉireann

Revolutionary Women

Feminists and nationalists: radical women were at the heart of the Irish revolution. Senia Paseta asks why this was forgotten

Professor Lyndal Roper

The Growth of Gender and Women's History

Professor Lyndal Roper

From compendium of Christine de Pizan’s works, 1413. Produced in her scriptorium in Paris

The Widows of the Battle of Agincourt

Rowena Archer looks ahead to the Agincourt 600 exhibition opening at the Tower of London in October and considers the miserable, the resigned and the relieved

Pages

Oxford Women Suffrage

Sappho to Suffrage: Women Who Dared

Venue: The Western Library, Exhibition open: 6 March 2018 — 3 February 2019

Research Projects

Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity

CGIS is a thriving community of students and scholars engaged in research on gender, class and identity and the broad area of emotions, psychology and subjectivity.

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Housing, Culture and Women's Citizenship in Britain, c.1945 to the present

This work takes forward the existing highly successful collaboration across the arts and housing sectors through the development of strategy and creative practice that will enable a greater number of local residents to reflect on their own experiences.