Meleisa Ono-George

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. She is interested in the everyday ways people 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 enslaved albino women of African ancestry, who was exhibited in late eighteenth-century Britain and the archival remnants of her life. Meleisa is also developing a community-engaged project which looks at the history of Black mothering in Britain and the use of creative and digital storytelling in historical production.