Tehila Sasson

Professor Tehila Sasson's research and teaching focuses on the British empire and the international order from 1850 until the present. She studies the social structures of inequalities, particularly their gendered and racial articulations, the history of economic thoughts, and the legal architecture of the economy. Drawing on national, international, and non-governmental archives from around and beyond the British empire, her work situates Britain’s history within a global and imperial frame. Tehila's work emphasizes that a global lens can explore both international structures of inequalities as well as the lived gendered and racial experiences of the global economy, whether it is on a high street in Manchester or a factory floor in Ahmedabad. She has written about the history of nonprofits and fair trade, decolonization and neoliberalism, development aid and gender, boycotts and corporate social responsibility, and the relationship between humanitarianism and empire.

Tehila serves as a co-editor for the journal Modern British History (OUP) and sits on the editorial board of the Histories of Internationalism series at Bloomsbury Press. Before joining the University of Oxford, she was an Assistant Professor of Britain and the World in the Department of History at Emory University. Tehila completed her PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley, in December 2015. She then held a Past & Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Historical Research, London, and a research associateship at the Center for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. Tehila's work has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the British Academy.

Professor Tehila Sasson has authored The Solidarity Economy (Princeton University Press, 2024) is a co-editor of Modern British History (OUP).