Olana Peters
History
Examination Fellow since 2022
Olana is an Examination Fellow, elected in 2022. Her doctoral thesis is on the experiences of overseas students from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean in Britain, and their participation in the student movement of the 1960s. She is also interested in histories of race, decolonisation, and contested public spaces, and has been associated with the Rhodes Trust and the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) in the Netherlands.
Research Areas
20th-century Britain
The 1968 Global Student Movement
Empires and Decolonisation
Race and Immigration
Race, Resistance, and Belonging
Selected Publications
‘A Place to Live, A Place to Belong: Student Protest in 1960s Oxford'
(With Stephen Tuck) In Race, Resistance and Belonging in the University: The Case of Oxford, eds. Stephen Tuck, Yasmin Khan, Patricia Daley, Michael Joseph. [Forthcoming: Bloomsbury]
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