Academic background 

• September 2025: Began PhD in History at Sciences Po, Paris
• October 2017 - May 2020: MA in Global History, Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
• October 2013 - June 2016: BA in History, University of Cambridge

My research explores the ways in which people who identified as white and British reimagined their racial and national identities in the post-colonial period. I intend to push forward the historiography of modern UK racial politics by analysing the development of racialised narratives of 'disorder' in Britain throughout the long 1970s. I will take a 'glo-cal' history approach to examine how transnational themes intersected with local debates on race in three key case studies of Lambeth, Birmingham, and Liverpool. By exploring populist ideas and experiences of whiteness in this period, my research also aims to contextualise and explain the subsequent rise and coded racial politics of the UK New Right.

Thesis supervisor: Mario Del Pero, Sciences Po
Thesis co-supervisor: Camilla Schofield, King's College London

Thesis title: Race, Disorder, and ‘Common Sense’ in Reconstructions of Postcolonial British Identities, 1958–1985