Jocelyn Olcott is a Professor of History at Duke University and founding director of the Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project.  Her research focuses on the history of feminist activism around questions of the political economy of care, particularly in the Global South.  Her current research centers on the networks of activist intellectuals that formed during the UN Decade for Women (1975-85) with attention to recognizing the economic importance of women’s unpaid labor.  She joined the Carework Network steering committee in 2022.

Select Publications:

Olcott, Jocelyn. “Latin American Feminisms.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. 2024.

Olcott, Jocelyn. “Decolonizing Development: Boundary Struggles in the Global South,” Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire 57:1 (2023): 197-208

“Solidarity Struggles:  Transnational Feminisms and Cold War Lefts in the Global South,” in Leftist Internationalisms:  A Transnational Political History, edited by Michele Di Donato and Mathieu Fulla.  London:  Bloomsbury (2023): 173-190.