Holly Cooper

Research Topic

Black Caribbean community organising, presence, and belonging in post-war Coventry, 1945 - 1990.

Holly Cooper (they/them) is a historian, researcher and activist. They are a third year DPhil student in History at the University of Oxford, researching twentieth-century Black Caribbean community histories of Coventry and Warwickshire. Holly previously completed their masters in Black British History at Goldsmiths, receiving a distinction. They favour Black radical methodologies in their work, and work to uncover marginalised histories outside of the metropole.

Holly currently coordinates the interdisciplinary programme, ‘Race and Resistance’ based at TORCH, University of Oxford, as well as being an experienced researcher, currently working on the Oxford/UCL joint project, ‘A Portrait of Empire, Migration, and Belonging in English Secondary schools’. They have previously worked with the AHRC, Goldsmiths, University of London and King’s College London.

Supervisor: Professor Meleisa Ono-George, Dr. Chantelle Jessica Lewis