Will is Lecturer and Class Teacher in the Department of Geography and Environment has worked at LSE since 2018, first as a PhD researcher and now as a lecturer and class teacher for GY204 and GY103.

His research background concerns political economy. His PhD thesis focused on England during the Glorious Revolution (1688), studying how various journalists, economists, and politicians justified the growth of the ‘fiscal-military state’. Generally, he uses discourse analyses of hundreds of prints to ascertain what ideas circulated during significant changes in a country’s political economy, to explain how they were understood by those who lived through them.

He has published four peer-reviewed papers, covering an array of fields relevant to contemporary geography. He is especially interested in the impact of diasporas on a country’s politics and media, having analysed the Huguenots – the first major transnational diaspora – as a Brill Fellow in Leiden. More recently, he has published works exploring the development of popular nationalism, focusing on how interactions with foreign Others were used to articulate ideas of nationhood.