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Dr. Lauren Working is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford, specializing in Elizabethan and early Stuart politics, sociability, material culture, and empire. Her first book The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2020) examines how colonial interests transformed political culture in early seventeenth-century London, and was shortlisted for the RHS Whitfield Prize.
As an ERC-funded TIDE project member, she co-authored a volume on early modern keywords related to migration, race, and identity. Her research bridges political history, material culture, and decolonizing practices in heritage education, with publications in The Historical Journal, Anthropology Today, and edited collections like Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America.
- Specializes in transatlantic plantation studies
- Focuses on poetics, archaeology, and material assemblages
- Active in public engagement through BBC Radio 3 and museum collaborations
Current projects include a comparative analysis of English plantations and domestic estates, alongside developing educational resources for secondary schools on migration and empire history.
