Katherine Backler

Katherine Backler is finishing a DPhil in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University; she works on women’s social relationships in classical Athens. This involves coaxing out women’s stories from evidence that doesn’t want to tell those stories! Within and beyond her academic work, Katherine is interested in different ways of ‘doing’ family; she volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters Oxfordshire, a mentoring and befriending programme for children in and on the edge of care.