Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Julia Laite is Reader in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on sexual labour, women’s migrant labour, and the reality and discourse of ‘sex trafficking’ in the early twentieth century. Dr Laite takes a rights-based approach to the question of sexual labour, and is a vocal advocate for the decriminalisation of commercial sex. Amongst others, she is the author of Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 (Palgrave, 2012).