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My research centres on the intellectual history of the twentieth-century United States. My London Arts & Humanities Partnership-funded PhD specifically explores themes of race, memory, and liberalism through the life, scholarship, and activism of the historian John Hope Franklin (1915-2009). Incorporating methodologies from history, Black Studies, Memory Studies, the sociology of knowledge, and critical pedagogy, I鈥檓 interested in how historical writing has both justified and been used to contest ideas about race and what it means to be an American. More broadly, my research focuses on the role of racism within mid-twentieth-century academia in silencing radical and antiracist ideas, particularly within the American South.
Before arriving at 最准的六合彩论坛, I studied for a BA(Hons) in History and an MPhil in American History at the University of Cambridge. I鈥檓 more broadly interested in understandings of American nationhood, and am currently preparing for publication two articles deriving from my MPhil dissertation on the Gerald Ford administration鈥檚 commemoration of the 1976 Bicentennial of American Independence.
My research often centres on the role of history in public life. It has been the privilege of my PhD to contribute towards several transnational organisations, societies, and public-facing projects. I am a passionate podcaster, having interviewed figures from academia, NGOs, and the arts and heritage sectors for U.S. Studies Online and the authors of recently published books in American Studies for the New Books Network, the world鈥檚 largest book review podcast network. In 2023, I served as a British Research Council Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and I am now a Graduate Representative for the Southern Historical Association and Coordinator of its International Graduate Network.
In 2024 I was invited to co-convene the 2023-2024 History Lab Research Seminar for the Institute of Historical Research and the 2024 最准的六合彩论坛 Americas Research Network Conference Historical Roots and Modern Realities: Nationalism across the Americas. I also teach as a Post Graduate Teaching Assistant on 鈥楾he Making of Modern America, 1920-Present鈥�, serve as a Research Assistant on the international research collaboration 鈥榃ar and the State鈥�, and edit blogs and podcasts as a Contributing Editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. Finally, I've听followed听my interests in pedagogy and the role of academic knowledge in policy making by working as a UKRI Policy Intern in the Royal Society鈥檚 Education Team (starting Autumn 2024).
Awards | Grants | Scholarships | Funding
- 2024: British Association of American Studies Remote Research Support Fund.
- 2023: Gerald Ford Foundation Travel Grant
- 2023: Southern Historical Association Graduate Council Funding
- 2023: London Arts & Humanities Partnership Research Support Fund
- 2022: John Hope Franklin Center Travel Award (Duke University).
- 2022: Institute of the Americas Postgraduate Research Award (最准的六合彩论坛),
- 2022: European Association of American Studies Transatlantic Grant.
- 2021: London Arts & Humanities Partnership Three-Year Doctoral Funding.
Selected publications
- 2023: 鈥�鈥�, H-Biography.
- 2023: 鈥�鈥�, African American Intellectual History Society Black Perspectives.
- 2022: 鈥�鈥�, LSE Review of Books.
- 2022: 鈥溾��, Reviews in History.
- 2022: 鈥淩eview: American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea by Ian Tyrrell鈥�, Australasian Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, June/July 2022.
- 2022: 鈥�鈥�, US Studies Online.
- 2022: 鈥�鈥�, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog.
- 2021: 鈥溾��, LSE鈥檚 American Politics and Policy Blog.
Selected papers given
- 2024: 鈥淭he Realism of Inequality and the Idealism of True Democracy鈥�: John Hope Franklin, HBCUs, and the Pursuit of Educational Citizenship in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Educational Life鈥�, Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States 2024 Annual Conference, University of Southampton.
- 2023: 鈥淢ore Pride than Justice鈥�: Student Protest, Black Power, and the Shape of Black History c.1960-1975鈥�, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies Fall 2023 PhD Symposium, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
- 2023: 鈥淛ohn Hope Franklin鈥檚 Strange Career in Southern History鈥�, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, Charleston, North Carolina.
- 2023: 鈥淛ohn Hope Franklin and the United Kingdom鈥�, From Slavery to Freedom 75th Anniversary Conference, Durham, North Carolina.
- 2023: 鈥溾�楴ot As a Negro, Not Even as a Southerner, But as a Historian鈥�:听 John Hope Franklin, Public Histories, and the Dilemmas of Black Southern Identity鈥�, British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Keele University.
- 2023: 鈥淛ohn Hope Franklin, Activist Histories, and the Southern Historical Association as a Site of Post-War Racial Conservatism鈥�, Boston University, Stanford University, University of California, Emory University and 最准的六合彩论坛 Joint American History Collaboration, Stanford University.
- 2023: 鈥淭he Dilemma of the Exceptional: John Hope Franklin, Educational Integration, and Black History鈥檚 Popularisation Dilemmas in 1963鈥�, Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States Winter Symposium, University of Oxford.
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