Personal Statement
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Wellcome Trust-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health.' I am a historian of health, medicine, and the environment in twentieth-century Southern Africa.

I graduated with a BA in History from the University of Zimbabwe in 2015, an MA in African History from the same university in 2018, and a PhD in History from the University of Bayreuth in 2025. Before joining the University of Liverpool, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Chair of African History at the University of Bayreuth.

Research Overview
I am working on my first monograph on the history of smallpox vaccination in Zimbabwe. Based on my doctoral project, this work examines how smallpox control became entangled with changing ideas of race, medical knowledge, national identities, colonial governance and memories, each of which mediated multiple meanings of the body. Drawing on archival sources, oral histories and vaccination scars, I argue that the body is an archive of experiences, memories, and history; therefore, an alternative source of historical knowledge. I am interested in how material and bodily traces can help place African experiences and forms of knowledge at the centre of historical research.

Beyond the book, I am also working on different topics for journal articles: the polio epidemic of 1955-1958 in Southern Rhodesia; scars as a historical source; and the training of radiologists in Southern Africa in the 1990s. I am also contributing a paper on the history of livestock dipping for a special issue tentatively titled 'Life after/afterlives of biopolitics,' edited by Noémi Tousignant, Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Prince (University of Oslo).
I have a keen interest in visual methods, oral histories and storytelling.