I’m a historian of the British empire and an assistant professor at Emory University. I am particularly interested in histories of ethics, the economy, and decolonization.
My first book, The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire, is forthcoming in May 2024 from Princeton University Press.
I’m currently working on two book projects. The first project analyzes the postimperial politics of financial exclusion and debt, looking especially at the experience of the Afro-Caribbean communities in Britain, Barbados, and Jamaica. The second project tells the story of how the struggle to own and extract natural resources became a central part of international politics in the twentieth century.
I have written on the history of consumerism, corporate social responsibility, humanitarianism, and famine relief in the American Historical Review, Past & Present, and the Journal of British Studies among other places. A full list of my academic work is here.
I am a co-editor of Modern British History (OUP).
I completed my PhD in History at University of California, Berkeley in December 2015. I held a Past & Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Historical Research, London and a research associateship at the Center for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. In 2019, I was also the Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer at Balliol College, University of Oxford. In 2023, I was selected as a British Academy Visiting Fellow hosted at the University of Birmingham.
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