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Employment

2016-Present

2010-2016

2005-2010

 

Professor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham

Associate Professor, University of Nottingham

Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Nottingham

Research Posts

2002-2005 Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College,
University of Cambridge
2003-2004 ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Homerton College,
University of Cambridge

Education

2010 American Institute of India Studies Hindi Autumn Language Program, Jaipur
2006-2009 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Nottingham
1999-2003

PhD, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; Colonial Governmentality: Spaces of Imperialism and Nationalism in India's New Capital, Delhi 1911-47

1996-1999

BA (Hons), Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Double First with distinction.

1989-1996

Kimberley Comprehensive School and Sixth Form

Awards/ Scholarships/Fellowships/Collaborations

     

2015-19

Principle Investigator on AHRC grant-funded project "Conferencing the International: a cultural and historical geography of the origins of internationalism (1919-1939)"

2015-16

British Academy Mid-Career Fellow

2014-

Member of the International Advisory Board to the Editorial Collective of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography

 

2013- Advisory Editorial Board Member, Espaço e Cultura journal (Brazil)
2013- Management Board, Institute Asia and Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham
2012-

AHRC Peer Review College member

2012

British Association of South Asian Studies South Asian Governmentalities Research Group Workshop Grant

2011-12

Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

2011- Committee member, Urban Cultures Network, University of Nottingham

2011

 

College Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London

2010 Philip Levehulme Prize
2009-2010 British Association of South Asian Studies South Asia Conference Grant
2009 -

Co-convenor, with Deana Heath, of the South Asian Governmentalities Research Group of the British Association for South Asian Studies, British Academy. (google site)

Collaborator on "Placing People in Colonial Cities: The Social Geography of Bombay and Calcutta, c.1900" (funded by the Canadian SSHRC, principal investigators being Richard Harris, McMaster University, and Robert Lewis, University of Toronto)

2008 -

Steering Committee for "Diaspora Cities: imagining Calcutta in London, Toronto and Jerusalem" project, Queen Mary, University of London

2007-2008

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant

2006-2007

Royal Geographical Society, Small Research Grant

University of Nottingham, New Lecturer's Fund

Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

2005-2006

Registered practitioner of the Higher Education Authority

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant

Dudley Stamp Memorial Fund, Royal Society

1999-2002

ESRC PhD funding

1999 Cambridge University, Fitzwilliam College Scholar of the Year