Dr Aisha Djelid

She completed her BA (Hons), MA, and PhD at the University of Reading where she researched antebellum Slavery in the US, and the forced reproduction of enslaved men and women through the lens of gender, capitalism, and health. This research was published in American Nineteenth Century History and will be published in full in a forthcoming monograph with the University of Georgia Press, which will explore intimate relationships, parenthood, health, marketisation, and the long-term legacies of forced reproduction. Before joining St Edmund Hall, she taught American history in the Faculty of History at Oxford as a departmental lecturer, the University of Reading, and Queen Mary University of London.

While Aisha is broadly interested in histories of gender and sexuality, her postdoctoral project explores the experiences of enslaved children and considers how and when they developed the ability and desire to resist their enslavement as they grew. It contemplates the differences (and similarities) between refusal and resistance to understand enslaved children’s unique form of agency. As such, she is also interested in histories of resistance, childhood and development, as well as the broader field of childhood studies.

EWF12: The Making of Modern America, since 1863
Approaches to History (Histories of Race)

Djelid, Aisha. 2024. “‘The Master Whished to Reproduce’: Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861.” American Nineteenth Century History 25 (1): 21–43. doi:10.1080/14664658.2024.2317499.