I am an LSE Fellow in the International Relations Department, where I currently teach a course on genocide and collective violence. I hold a PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from Cambridge University.

My scholarship is interdisciplinary and focuses on two key areas. First, I study how to analyse and critically engage with Jewish international politics, from Israel/Palestine to Russia’s war on Ukraine. An article on the links between (German) colonialism and Jewish political Zionism is under preparation, and I am working on a project that interrogates why Jewish political agency in International Relations seems to exist solely through the figure of the State of Israel.

Second, I am developing a monograph that examines how the afterlife of European genocidal colonialism has been articulated, made legible, and recognized in Germany since 2018. The book is grounded in many years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in locations ranging from a courtroom in the USA, to debates over the politics of Holocaust memory in Germany, to struggles over transnational fascist movements in Namibia. The book makes several interventions, including an exploration of how the legacy of European colonialism materialises in fascist politics beyond Europe itself. I examine the past and present of German colonialism to explore the global politics of race and empire in a world increasingly drawn to various forms of right-wing politics.

I have published on the question of reparations for settler colonialism in Humanity, for which I won the 2023 prize for best article. My work has also been published in E-International Relations and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review. I have written for NGOs, including the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and served as an editor for the online journal Europe Now. My research has been funded  by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.

Beyond LSE, I have taught courses at Columbia University, IES Abroad, and UFSC. I hold a graduate certificate in gender and sexuality studies and have co-taught seminars on the sexual and gendered politics of fascism. I am dedicated to inclusive pedagogy and political education, both inside and outside the academy. In 2023/24, I won a student-nominated award for inclusive teaching.

Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students.