Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth

I joined the History and Politics departments in 2021, having previously been the Plumer Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies, St Anne's College, University of Oxford. My work explores empire, rebellion, migration and the co-construction of religion and ethnicity in China’s northwest, with a particular focus on the impact of 19th century state-directed resettlements of Muslims following the Great Northwestern Rebellions, 1860-1872. An additional strand of my current work explores the impacts of contemporary Sinicization of Islam campaigns among Chinese-speaking Muslims.Broadly speaking, I am interested in histories of ethnicity and the environment, and in writing engaged histories that speak to the present.

Associate Fellow, AdvanceHE

Member of the American Historical Association

I am the subeditor of British Journal of Chinese Studies; I also coordinate an informal network of scholars working on Islam in China.

I teach across History and Politics departments, offering a range of courses on China, refugee studies, historical methodology, postcolonialism and the Global South.

PIR 314: Mao to Now - the Politics of Modern China

PIR 500X: Refugee Studies

IRL 204: Global Development and International Relations

HIST 522: Talking History, Seeing History: Research Methods in Oral and Visual History

Areas of expertise for supervision:

China, especially late imperial China, and/or ethnic politics