about

Jade Bentil is a Black feminist historian whose work seeks to map the genealogies of Black women's refusal and resistance, both in Britain and throughout the Black diaspora.

She holds a DPhil in History from Merton College, the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis drew upon oral history methodologies to build a history of the Black Women’s movement in late twentieth-century Britain. Mapping an intellectual history of Black feminist activism, the thesis contends that Black women’s autonomous organising was an experimentation with a new form of intellectual, political, artistic, and social culture.

For her scholarship on the Black Women’s movement, Jade was awarded the Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship from the North American Conference on British Studies in 2022, the Justin Champion Fellowship in Black British History from the Institute of Historical Research in 2023 and the Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award from the Association of Black Women Historians in 2024. Jade is currently working on her first book, REBEL CITIZEN, an oral history project focusing on the intimate recollections and experiences of Black women of African and Caribbean descent who migrated to Britain following the Second World War. REBEL CITIZEN is forthcoming from Allen Lane.