Research Overview

I am a Teaching Fellow in Modern History having previously taught and studied for my PhD at Warwick. My PhD was supervised by Professor Daniel Branch and Dr James Poskett, and I was awarded a Departmental Scholarship to undertake my thesis, entitled Pan-African Print, Politics in Action: A Book History of the Pan-African Movement, 1930-1950.

My research centres upon the role of print in anti-colonial movements within the British Empire, particularly the Pan-African movement. It aims to look at the connections, intersections, and differences between anti-colonial movements through the lens of print. I have also written about the editorial career of Indian independence activist V. K. Krishna Menon and am currently revising my thesis for submission as a book manuscript.

Research Interests

• Book history
• Histories of anti-colonialism
• History of political thought
• Global histories of empire
• Queer histories
• Visual media and photography

Academic Profile

2024-: Teaching Fellow in Modern History, University of Warwick

- Modules include Making of the Modern WorldLink opens in a new window, Historiography ILink opens in a new window, and Historiography IILink opens in a new window

- Other roles include:

Academic Writing Adviser

Teaching Representative for Social Inclusion and Diversity CommitteeLink opens in a new window

2024, July: Lecturer, Warwick Summer School, University of Warwick

- Gave lectures for the 'Exploring British Culture' module, including upon Shakespeare and queer literature, and upon Oxford's colonial histories

2023-2024: Sessional Tutor in History, University of Warwick

- Taught Making of the Modern World module

2022-2023: Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant in History, University of Warwick

-Taught Making of the Modern World and Britain in the Twentieth Century modules

2019-2023: PhD in History, University of Warwick

- Supervisors: Professor Daniel BranchLink opens in a new window and Dr James PoskettLink opens in a new window

- Thesis titled Pan-African Print: Politics in Action - A Book History of the Pan-African Movement, 1930-1950

2018-2019: MA in Modern History, University of Warwick

- Supervisor: Dr James PoskettLink opens in a new window

- Dissertation titled Editing Independence: The Political Thought and Publishing Career of V. K. Krishna Menon, 1929-1939

2015-2018: BA (Hons) in History, University of Warwick

- Supervisor: Dr James PoskettLink opens in a new window

- Dissertation titled Rethinking Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehruvianism for Modern Indian Political Thought: A Book History of The Discovery of India (1946)

Centres and Memberships

Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical SocietyLink opens in a new window

Convenor of the Modern British History Reading GroupLink opens in a new window

Member of the Global History and Culture CentreLink opens in a new window, University of Warwick

Member of the Manuscript and Print Cultures Research GroupLink opens in a new window, University of Warwick

Postgraduate Student, European History Research CentreLink opens in a new window, University of Warwick

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• 'The Early Political Thought and Publishing Career of V. K. Krishna Menon, 1928-1938', The Historical Journal, 66 (2023), pp. 641-65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000031Link opens in a new window

Other Writings:

• '‘one can love’: Richard Bruce Nugent, Fire!!, and the Harlem Renaissance', queer/disrupt. https://www.queerdisrupt.com/index.php/2021/07/01/one-can-love-richard-bruce-nugent-fire-and-the-harlem-renaissance/Link opens in a new window 
• '‘When the four corners of this cocoon collide’: A Brief Global Overview of Pan-Africanism, 1788-Present', Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/when_the_four/Link opens in a new window 
• '‘Mak’: Ras T Makonnen, the unrecognized hero of the Pan-African Movement', Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust, Manchester. https://www.racearchive.org.uk/mak-ras-t-makonnen-the-unrecognized-hero-of-the-pan-african-movement/Link opens in a new window
• 'Researching Ras T. Makonnen and Pan-Africanism in Manchester at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre' written as part of their Black History month programme, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust, Manchester. https://www.racearchive.org.uk/researching-ras-t-makonnen-and-pan-africanism-in-manchester-at-the-ahmed-iqbal-ullah-race-centre/Link opens in a new window

Reviews:

• Review: Theo Williams, Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonization (London, 2022). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=59372 
• Review: Arthur Asseraf, Electric News in Colonial Algeria (Oxford, 2019). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55958Link opens in a new window 
• Review: Jeremy Adelman (ed.), Empire and the Social Sciences: Global Histories of Knowledge (London, 2019). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55038Link opens in a new window 
• Review: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia (Stanford, 2018). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53275Link opens in a new window 

Podcasts:

• Podcast for queer/disrupt with producer for Shoga FilmsLink opens in a new window, Dr Robert Philipson, 'The Harlem Renaissance in Black and Pink'. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1hJK3yJSs4j8uEPDud1SWt?si=b8c423f924e6476eLink opens in a new window 

Outreach:

• Consultant author for Brillder, May 2023-Present.

Working as a consultant author for Brillder, creating bespoke history learning resources for GCSE and A-Level students who aspire to attend university. https://brillder.com/

• 'I'm a Historian' UK Black History Zone Historian project (supported by UKRI), October 2022.

Volunteered as the historian for George Padmore in online question and answer sessions with school children aged 10-18, speaking about the role of Black activists and figures in British history. https://bhm22.imhistory.uk 

Conferences and Comments

• Discussant for Global History and Culture Centre seminar, University of Warwick, November 2023.

'Knowledge Frontiers: The Sixth Pan African Congress and the Literature of Resource Sovereignty', speaker: Christine Okoth (KCL)

• Warwick Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick, May 2022.

Paper entitled 'Printing Pan-Africanism: The Black Jacobins and the Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James'

• ECR Workshop 'Mobile Bodies' (in conjunction with Prof. Radhika Singha's (JNU) visit to Warwick), University of Warwick, May 2022.

Paper entitled 'V. K. Krishna Menon: An Editor in Britain'

• Discussant for European History Research Centre seminar, University of Warwick, October 2020

'News Networks in Colonial Algeria', speaker: Arthur Asseraf (Cambridge)

Awards

2019-2023: University of Warwick, History Department Doctoral Scholarship

Past Teaching

2023/24

HI153 - Making of the Modern WorldLink opens in a new window

2022/23

HI180 - Britain in the Twentieth Century: A Social HistoryLink opens in a new window

HI153 - Making of the Modern WorldLink opens in a new window