Biography
I am a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations, based jointly at Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations and St Hilda’s College. I also hold an affiliation with Pembroke College, where I am a Career Development Lecturer in International Relations.
As a researcher, I write about the global politics of communication technology, mainly from a historical-sociological perspective. On the teaching side, I tutor PPE and History and Politics undergraduates across a range of International Relations papers, while also contributing to graduate teaching and supervision for the MPhil in International Relations.
With digitalisation upending world politics, my interest is in how we got here. I study communication technologies as long-term structures in international politics, drawing lessons for the analysis of contemporary challenges from histories of how media evolved. My first book, Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World (Oxford University Press, 2024), was a study of the rise of Donald Trump in light of a similar - but ultimately unsuccessful - nationalist ordering project in the 19th-century British imperial world. My current projects include work on generative AI and the liberal international order, the international politics of infrastructure building, and the history of data governance at the UNHCR.
I received my PhD from the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, supervised by Christian Reus-Smit and funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities doctoral scholarship. Before that, I completed an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at the University of Cambridge and an MA (Hons) in Politics and Economic & Social History at the University of Edinburgh.
Positions
- Lecturer in International Relations
Subjects
- Politics
