Dr Rachel Taylor

Rachel Taylor is a historian of East and Central Africa, with a particular focus on histories of gender, labour, and consumption. Her research explores how Africans build meaningful lives and communities in times of great social, political and economic change. Within this broad field, her current research project Sewing the City: Dressmaking and Modernity in Postcolonial Lubumbashi, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, seeks to provide a new history of the modern African city through analysing the work and lives of dressmakers in Lubumbashi. She is also a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College.

African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network

The African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network has been awarded for two years (2022 - 2024).