Personal Statement
I am a Reader in Politics and International Relations and the Deputy Head of the Department of Politics, having joined in 2017 as a Lecturer. Previously, I worked as a Teaching Associate at Aston University and as an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. I graduated with a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2016. The research was published as a book by Palgrave in 2019 with the title 'Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought'. Prior to this, I completed an MA in Research Methods in Politics and International Relations and a BA in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

My areas of research specialism are critical border and migration studies, solidarity and activism, with a particular focus on Europe and responses to bordering. I have also worked on Kantian philosophy and African political thought, with a focus on Pan-Africanism and Négritude.

I teach a number of modules on political theory, as well as a third year specialism on migration studies, 'Solidarity, Activism and Borders in the EU'.

I am Deputy Director of the Europe and the World Centre and a Board Member of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

Research Overview
My research sits at the intersection of Political Geography, Applied Political Theory and International Relations and focuses on borders, migration and solidarity in Europe, with a particular interest in the Greek borderzones of the EU. I have worked since 2017 on mapping changes and developments in European bordering practices, particularly around displacement and encampment. As an activist-scholar, I am also interested in experiences of community, worldmaking and solidarity that take place often in opposition to systems of securitisation and exclusion. I have published extensively on border governance, citizenship, visual politics and provisions for refugees, as well as on Racial Capitalism and the Migration Fix.

In the past, I have also worked on cross-cultural interactions and how these can be achieved justly. My book 'Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought' explored these questions in the context of anti-colonial and postcolonial scholarship.

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of European bordering, Racial Capitalism, migrant solidarity and activism, as well as in African political thought.