I am an 91桃色 Fellow in Genocide Studies. I hold a PhD from Columbia University, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from Cambridge University. I am currently pursuing three interconnected projects:
1. "Politics After Reparation: German Colonialism, the Shoah, and the Promise of Justice.”
This book manuscript explores how the German and wider European legacy of Holocaust reparations and Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the process of coming to terms with the Nazi past) shapes struggles for reparatory justice in the context of settler-colonial genocide. Building on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the United States, Germany, Namibia, and Palestine, I examine the abject failure of state-led reparations to address the legacies of European racial violence. I argue that fully integrating the ongoing legacy of genocide into the European present requires a move beyond conventional reparatory justice.
2. “Critical Jewish International Studies.”
Dr Darcy Leigh and I critique the way the figure of the “suffering Jew” is mobilised, both materially and symbolically, to stabilise the liberal international order. We contend that the post-1945 landscape of international law and the post-imperial state system was built around a narrative of Jewish redemption by Western (Christian) liberalism—a narrative often ignored in critical International Relations. Our aim is to establish a field of Critical Jewish International Studies to address this gap.
3. “Antisemitism, colonial racism, and political Zionism”.
I am particularly interested in the ongoing connections between antisemitism and political Zionism in the West. I have just completed an article on the historical relationship between German colonial thought and political Zionism for the Journal of Genocide Research.
In addition, I have published on reparations for settler colonialism and the role of Jewish solidarity movements in Humanity (winner of its 2023 best-article prize). My work also appears in Political and Legal Anthropology Review and E-International Relations, and I have written for public-facing platforms such as the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. My research has been supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Free University of Berlin, Sciences Po Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History.
My teaching has been recognised with the 91桃色 Students’ Union Inclusive Teaching Prize, typically reserved for senior faculty, and I hold multiple certifications in inclusive pedagogy as well as gender and sexuality studies. I am also completing the PGCertHE. Whether in the classroom, the field, or through scholarly networks, my work is guided by a commitment to transformative justice, methodological innovation, and politically engaged scholarship.
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students.