Julia Laite's research examines the history of migration, gender, sex and crime, as well as family history, creative history and public history. She is the author of The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey (Profile Books, 2021), Wolfenden's Women (Springer, 2022, co-authored with Samantha Caslin), and Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens (Springer, 2012), and was principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project Trafficking Past. Her current work examines critical family history, settler colonialism and migration.