Betty Wood

A specialist in slavery and gender in the early Atlantic world, Betty Wood earned a BA in geography at Keele University in 1967, an MA in social and economic history at the University of London in 1968, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. Wood taught at Girton College, Cambridge from 1971 until her retirement in 2013, where she served as Director of Studies in History from 1974 until 1984.