Contact
Biography
For full information please visit my personal web page.
Expertise Summary
- Internationalism
- Global governance
- United States
- Race relations
- Archives
- Digital geographies
Teaching Summary
Current teaching (*convenor):
- Year 1 - Exploring Human Geography (2018-)
- Year 2 - Political Geography* (2020-)
- Year 3 - European Urban Geographies [Berlin Field Trip] (2010-)
- Year 3 - Geographies of Modern America* (2025-)
N.B. I also teach tutorials (Year 1), research tutorials (Year 2) and supervise dissertation students (Year 2/3).
Research Summary
I am a historical and political geographer and my research intersects around three themes:
1. Internationalism: My work considers the geographies of internationalist thought, with a particular focus on how 'marginal' groups interact with liberal internationalism and global governance. Publications on this topic include an edited book Placing Internationalism (Bloomsbury, 2021), a special issue of Political Geography, and articles in Transactions of the IBG and Political Geography.
2. United States: My work considers the geographies of modern America, with a particular focus on twentieth century race relations and the US's global role. Publications on this topic include articles in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Journal of American Studies, and History Workshop Journal.
3. Archives: My work considers the changing political and economic infrastructures of archives, with particular focus on the expanding role of digital archive technologies. Publications on this topic include articles in Progress in Human Geography, the Journal of Historical Geography and Area.
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To date, my research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (2009-14), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2015-19; 2021), the Royal Geographical Society (2021) and the British Academy / Wolfson Foundation (2022-25). As part of my current project, I am working on a book-length account of how race relations were internationalised after the First World War.
I am co-editor of the RGS-IBG Book Series. I also sit on the editorial board of Geography Compass, the academic advisory board of Nottingham Contemporary, lead the School's Cultural and Historical Geography Research Theme, and I am Director the University's Urban Culture Network.
Selected Publications