Dr Simon Jenkins

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Research

I am interested in the histories of prostitution, policing, imperialism, migration, race and racism. I have published work on race and racism in modern Wales. My first article, published in Cultural and Social History, focused on the intersections of prostitution and race in Cardiff, the space of Butetown (Cardiff’s dockland), and how racialised concepts of predatory sexuality framed ideas of prostitution in twentieth-century British ports. My second article, in the Journal of Social History, examined the racialisation and policing of Maltese men in interwar Cardiff. This article studied how imperial ideas around gender, race, and sexuality shaped ideas about Maltese men and masculinity, how this was set against the masculinities of other groups, and how this influenced policing. The article also explored how these ideas were used as a political tool by Cardiff’s chief constable in attempt to obtain greater controls over ethnic and racial minority people who had migrated to Cardiff, from the British Empire, in the early-twentieth century. I am currently finalising my first monograph, entitled People on the Margins: Prostitution, Race, and Gender in Cardiff, 1885-1959, which is forthcoming with University of Wales Press. My monograph further develops my doctoral research, particularly in how it looks at the intersectionality of migration and prostitution, with greater focus on questions of class.

Teaching

Making of the Modern World

Reading History