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Katherine Paugh serves as Associate Professor of Atlantic World Women’s History and Senior Fellow at the University of Oxford, specializing in early American history through interdisciplinary lenses of race, gender, medicine, and bodily politics within colonial and slave societies.
Her research program centers on:
- Early American History
- Atlantic World Historical Networks
- Women's and Gender History
- Race and Medicalization
- Slavery and Abolition Politics
- History of Reproduction and Disease
Dr. Paugh's scholarship critically examines how medical knowledge, reproductive control, and bodily autonomy were weaponized within slave systems, particularly analyzing intersections between British abolitionism, Caribbean plantation economies, and enslaved women's experiences. Her work reveals how gendered medical discourses sustained racial hierarchies while exposing resistance through bodily agency.
Publication trends demonstrate consistent focus on Atlantic World medical circulation, with recurring themes of venereal disease politics, colonial legal frameworks governing women's bodies, and transnational knowledge exchange between Caribbean colonies and imperial centers. Recent works increasingly incorporate comparative analysis of British, French, and Spanish colonial contexts.
Honors include the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians article prize and institutional fellowships recognizing scholarly excellence:
- McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fellowship
- Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship
- Huntington Library Fellowship
- Harvard Seminar on Atlantic World History Fellowship
Research funding from these institutions supports her current monograph on venereal disease history and digital archival projects reconstructing enslaved women's medical experiences. No student advisement details appear in available sources, though her methodological frameworks influence emerging scholars in Atlantic World gender history.
