PhD Candidates

The History of Flood Governance in the Colonial River Indus Basin, under the supervision of Giacomo Parrinello.

Her doctoral research examines the governance of flooding in the Lower Indus Basin from the British annexation of Sindh in 1843 to the construction and early operation of the Sukkur Barrage in the 1930s. The thesis reconstructs the political ecology of disaster governance, with particular attention to how responses to environmental crises shaped ideas of statecraft and the political contract.

To do so, she draws on a wide range of historical sources, including hagiographies, gazetteers, government correspondence, reports, surveys, maps, and photographs, alongside vernacular newspapers and literary and nationalist writings in Urdu, Persian, and Sindhi. She argues that disasters were more than spectacular caesurae in colonial environmental history: a persistent awareness of the possibility of disaster informed the production of the tools, ideologies, and administrative apparatuses through which colonial rule operated. In this sense, the colonial state was, in important respects, an “Emergency State.”

Her interest in this history emerged in part from the devastating floods that affected Pakistan in 2022, and from the wider debates surrounding climate crisis, adaptation, and the governance of environmental risk.

Women in combat from the Colonies: Mobilization, Mobility, Militarization in World War II, under the supervision of Elissa Mailänder at Sciences Po (CHSP) and Prof. Silvio Pons at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 

The Child as Memory-Figure from 1945 to the Present (Canada, United States, Germany)

“Beaucoup d’ouvriers lisent des feuilles communistes, mais tous vont au cinéma !”. A social and cultural history of popular French audiences in the interwar period (1919-1939), under the co-supervision of Marion Fontaine (CHS – Sciences Po), Christophe Prochasson (CESPRA – EHESS).