I am a political theorist and intellectual historian at the London School of Economics, where I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Popular Government in Global Perspective project. My research interests are broadly in the history of democratic thought, empire, and race, especially in the modern ‘British world’.

My current book project examines the moment in the late-nineteenth century when metropolitan Britain, the seat of the world’s most powerful empire, was declared to have become a democratic state. I argue that this was a pivotal moment in the history of modern democratic thought, which set the stage for the global contest over democracy’s meaning in the era of decolonisation. The book manuscript, titled The Dawn of Imperial Democracy, explores how left-wing metropolitan thinkers imagined and contested the relationship between democracy and global empire. I have also published on the history of modern liberalism, race, and empire.

My other research includes excavating Fabian critiques of racial capitalism, and a second project that examines how anti-colonial thinkers in the wider ‘British world’, writing at the height of twentieth-century decolonisation, theorised the possibilities of egalitarian social democracy in the context of racial hierarchy and imperial migration.

Previously, I was a Junior Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought at Christ’s College and an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, both at the University of Cambridge, where I also obtained my PhD. At Cambridge, I also co-convened the Political Thought and Intellectual History research seminar and taught undergraduate and master’s classes in the political theory, intellectual history, and historical methods.

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