Ruth Percy
I started teaching Modern History at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ in 2022, having joined Oxford in 2015. Before that I spent 4 years in the US and 6 years in Canada where I did my PhD.
Research Interests
Trained as a social historian, I have become increasingly interested in the ways in which ideas and discursive structures develop and inform social relations. In particular I am interested in how experiences of class and gender inform and are informed by discourses of class and gender. My book project, ‘I am not a feminist’: Equality, Rights, and Working Women’s Culture in London and Chicago, 1870s-1920s, examines these dynamics in the context of the women’s labour movement in late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Chicago, using archived oral histories alongside more conventional written sources.
Teaching
I teach a range of modern British and American papers and methodological options including gender, race, space, and slavery.
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