Katherine Paugh, Associate Professor of History, University of Oxford

Katherine Paugh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Her research interests encompass the history of race and gender, the history of medicine, and the politics of childbearing. She has been selected for over a dozen grants and fellowships that support outstanding research, including awards from the Huntington Library and the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Her work has appeared in journals including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Past & Present, and Slavery & Abolition. In 2014, she was awarded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.

"This is an important book that should be read by students and scholars interested in the history of slavery and abolition, British imperial history, and Caribbean/Atlantic history, and women's history... summing up: Highly recommended." - CHOICE

"The strength of Paugh's study lies in her constant ideological contextualization in time and space of the politics of reproduction that took place in British Caribbean plantation societies." - Alix Rivière, Tulane University, New West Indian Guide

"Contemporary demographers will find inThe Politics of Reproductionan insightful early study of the difficulties states encounter when attempting to legislate a reproduction regime that meets the needs of their production regime." - Population and Development Review

"The Politics of Reproduction is an interesting and multifaceted book, linking discussion of the parliamentary politics of the abolition debates with aspects of Caribbean social history ... This study therefore adds some valuable new perspectives to our understanding of the struggles over slavery and abolition in the British empire, but it is also certain to fuel ongoing debates about those struggles and their wider significance." - Christer Petley, History