Dr Meleisa Ono-George

Dr. Meleisa Ono-George (she/her)

Dr Meleisa Ono-George is a social-cultural historian of race and gender, with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean. Meleisa is the Brittenden Fellow in Black British History, and a Tutorial Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford. Dr. Ono-George is interested in the everyday ways people oppressed within society negotiate and navigate structures of power and inequality, as well as the methods historians use in the research, production, and dissemination of historical narratives.

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. She 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 projects draw upon her interest in community-engaged and Caribbean research methodologies.

See page on Queen’s College website or Faculty website.

Publications:

Ono-George, M and Hinton, M. (2020) Teaching a history of “race” and anti-racist action in an academic classroom. Area. 2020; 52: 716–721.

Ono-George, M (2019). Beyond diversity: anti-racist pedagogy in British History deptartments. Women’s History Review 28:3 pp 1-8

Ono-George, Meleisa (2017) 'By her unnatural and despicable conduct' : motherhood and concubinage in the watchman and Jamaica free press, 1830- 1833. Slavery & Abolition, 38 (2). pp. 356-372.

Ono-George, M. (2015). ‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women’s Agency in Jamaica. In: Jackson, W., Manktelow, E.J. (eds) Subverting Empire. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Dr Ono-George is involved with the Race and Resistance Programme (2021)