Pronouns: she/her
Home University: University of Waterloo
Email: eawood@uwaterloo.ca
Education: BA History and MA, History, University of New Brunswick
Research Fields: Gender History, History of Bodies, Transnational History
Supervisors: Katherine Bruce-Lockhart and Jane Nicholas
Emily is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. She holds a BA and MA in History from the University of New Brunswick. Her doctoral research investigates how women’s reproductive bodies were regulated, medicalized, and shaped through key stages of reproduction within Second World War camp systems, including Nazi concentration camps and Japanese Canadian and Japanese American internment sites. Focusing on puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause, her work examines how scientific and cultural understandings of reproductive processes circulated within and were reshaped by carceral environments. Drawing on camp medical records, survivors’ memoirs, and oral histories, she analyzes how knowledge about women’s bodies was produced, interpreted, and lived in these diverse geopolitical contexts.