Participant Info
- First Name
- Nastasha
- Last Name
- Sartore
- Country
- Canada
- State
- nastasha.sartore@mail.utoronto.ca
- Affiliation
- University of Toronto
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Britain, gender, sexuality, labour, emotions, intimacy, class, senses, culture, London, digital humanities, urban history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and Europe, with particular expertise in the history of labour, gender and sexuality, urban history, and the digital humanities. I am currently a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto, where I recently completed my PhD in History. I also hold an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from McGill University.
My dissertation, titled Precarious Desire: Gender, Intimacy, and Companionship in Working-Class London, 1880-1914, examines how underemployed home-workers, striking factory workers, sex workers, and local suffrage activists formed intimate attachments as they navigated poverty and chronic insecurity. Drawing from methods in social history, feminist and queer studies, visual culture, and the history of emotions, my research captures a broad range of stories about everyday life and love in modern Britain.
My doctoral work also included an open-access digital mapping project exploring the social networks of commercial sex in London’s West End. You can see my StoryMap here.
My new research examines intimate histories of women and suicide, focusing on the ways that gender, class, race, and disability were entangled in contemporary understandings of suicidality in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Recent Publications
“‘A Fine Spirit of Comradeship’: Class, Sisterhood, Hope, and Solidarity in the Woman Worker, 1907-1910.” Labor History, November 2024, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2024.2423763.
“Victorian Women’s Tattoos.” History Workshop, 26 November 2024. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/gender/victorian-womens-tattoos/.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @nastashasartore.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- Britain
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, British Isles, England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Law, Pedagogy, Politics, Public History, Science, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Urban History, Women
