I am a historian of British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. In my research and teaching I am constantly exploring the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire. My themes of focus in my research are: labor, women's history, food and emotions.

Datta, A. (2023). Stranded: Indian Travelling Ayahs Negotiating Waiting and Repatriation. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 30(1), 33-54. https://doi-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/10.1177/09715215221133541

Caroline Bressey is a cultural and historical geographer in the Department of Geography University College London where she has been a lecturer since 2008. Her main research focus is the lives of Black women and men in Victorian London, Victorian anti-racist activism and the representation of history in heritage sites. In 2012 – 2013 she has been the Principal Investigator on the ‘Drawing over the Colour Line’ a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Research which examines geographies of art and cosmopolitan identities in London between the wars: http://drawingoverthecolourline.wordpress.com/

Research Interests: Archival Studies and Management; Participatory Archives; Community-Based Archives; Digital Archiving; Information Behavior; Digital Humanities

Kennetta Hammond Perry’s research examines Black diasporic communities and political formations shaped by and within the imperial bordering of Britain.

I am a historian of Modern Imperial Britain, and I research migration, citizenship, and the welfare state in the twentieth century.

I am a social and cultural historian who works on histories of race, empire, and immigration. Committed to multi-archival and interdisciplinary research, my previous and future work contributes to developing comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in the fields of migration and imperial studies. My first book (forthcoming) examines the transnational trajectories of Britain’s East African Asian population. I have also worked on the history of trauma in relation to post-war Irish diasporic communities.

Saima Nasar, Patrolling race and the UK's medical borders,
The Lancet, Volume 397, Issue 10286, 2021, Pages 1702-1703, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00996-X.
(https://www-sciencedirect-com.libproxy.library.unt.edu/science/article/pii/S014067362100996X)

Schaffer, Gavin, and Saima Nasar. 2023. “Black Lives and the ‘Archival Pulse’: The Murder of Neil ‘Tommy’ Marsh and Other Stories.” Rethinking History 27 (4): 637–63. doi:10.1080/13642529.2023.2202997. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642529.2023.2202997)

Nasar, Saima, and Gavin Schaffer. "The Poetics of Narrativity: Understanding Trauma, Temporality, and Spatiality Forty Years after the Birmingham Pub Bombings." Journal of Social History 53, no. 4 (2020): 1008-1032. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/790555. (https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.library.unt.edu/article/790555)

I study the experiences of women of South Asian descent in 1970s-1990 Britain. I examine how these women confronted forms of racialized and gendered state violence, labor exploitation, and domestic abuse. I examine violence at multiple scales, from the large state mechanisms to the everyday intimate encounter, demonstrating how these layers of violence not merely coalesce, but are interlocking and co-produced. Furthermore, I aim to center the networks of resistance these women forged alongside Black British feminists.

My research explores what policy means in practice, or more specifically, how people (organized, for example, as neighborhoods, diasporic communities, students, tenants) respond to the failures and violence of policy. I find ethnographic inspiration in the ways groups forge notions of solidarity, community, and home amid precarious conditions. Research fieldsites have ranged from the urbanizing periphery of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, to resettled refugees buying houses in Texan suburbs, and global migrants negotiating the bottlenecks of Latin American transit migration.

I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain. My research interests include the New Left, cultural studies, urban history, race, immigration and multiculturalism.

My research has been devoted to explaining the specific forms of gender, race and class formation and labor migration stemming from processes of European global expansion.

Research Interests: Black British History; Modern Britain and the British Empire; Black European Studies; Modern European cultural, social, and intellectual history; Black Atlantic; women's and gender history; history of sexuality; and world history

Research Interests: Black British History; Black European Studies; Black Studies and the African Diaspora; Gender and Sexuality; Cultural Studies

I’m a historian of 19th and 20th century Britain and its empire, with a specialty in colonial India and an ongoing interest in Australasia and Africa. I’ve written on topics ranging from feminism and colonialism to the relationship of empire to the nation and the world. Women, gender and sexuality have always been central to my research, which has drawn on intersectional methods to privilege race as a modality through which systems and identities operate. I've been especially concerned with the role of Indian women in India, in Britain and in the wider diaspora.