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Alice Raw is a historian specializing in late medieval gender and sexuality. She is currently a Mark Kaplanoff Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, having joined in 2024. Previously, she held Stipendiary Lectureships at Corpus Christi College and Oriel College, Oxford, and served as a Departmental Lecturer in History at St John’s College, Oxford, from 2021 to 2023. Additionally, Alice was an International Research Excellence Fellow at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Tel Aviv for the year 2023-2024. Her ongoing research project, 'Whose Commune?', explores the political community in medieval England through large-scale examinations of civic manor records and the involvement of women. She is preparing a monograph titled 'Reading Pleasure: Women’s Sexuality in Medieval England' and has notable publications including articles in the Medieval Feminist Forum and English Historical Review that focus on themes of pleasure, sexual subjectivity, and gender protest in medieval society.
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