DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Program Area(s):  International Relations; Political Theory

Subfield Specialties:  Critical Theory

Dissertation Title:

Bordering the Angloworld: Migration Governance Between Empire and Nation

Dissertation Committee:  Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman (Chair); Hurd, Ian; Vucetic, Srdjan (University of Ottawa)

Research Interest(s): Histories of Race, Empire, and Decolonization in World Politics; Migration and Border Governance in the ‘Anglosphere’; Critical, Postcolonial, and Historical International Relations; Nationalism and State Formation; Interpretive and Archival Methods; Sociology of Knowledge

Conference Presentations:

• “Empire, Race, and Connected Histories of Democratization,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Philadelphia, United States, September 2024.
• “Empire, Race, and Connected Histories of Democratization,” European Workshops in International Studies, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2024.
• "Empire, Race, and Connected Histories of Democratization,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, United States, April 2024.

Honor(s) & Award(s): 

• Pre-Dissertation International Summer Research Award, Buffett Institute of Global Affairs, Northwestern University, 2024
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2023-2026