Professor Deborah Oxley

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Professor Deborah Oxley
Professor of Social Science History
All Souls College
deborah.oxley@history.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • Measuring the biological consequences of European Imperialism
  • Height and health in history;
  • Body mass - a new frontier in anthropometrics;
  • Micro-economics of the household;
  • Penal transportation to Australia;
  • Coercive labour systems;
  • Colonial Australian development;
  • Crime and punishment in Great Britain and Ireland
  • Weighty Matters: A Somatic History of the Industrial Revolution
  • Convict Australia: Coercions and Freedoms in Australian Penal Colonies

 

In 2013, I presented the Economic History Society Tawney Lecture on Anthropometrics, Gender & Health Inequality in History:

In 2014-17, Deborah was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, working on 'Weighty Matters: Anthropometrics, gender and health inequality in Britain's past'.

Deborah was also part of a team working on The Digital Panopticon, an AHRC Digital Transformations Grant, uniting the Old Bailey Online with Australian convict records to examine the long-term impact of penal policy.

Deborah has been appointed Visiting Professor of Economic History at the University of Gothenburg: http://handels.gu.se/english/about-the-School/visiting-professor-programme/current-visiting-professors/deborah-oxley

See page on All Souls College website

Publications