Staff profile

My PhD project studies border mapping and boundary-making practices in the British Indian Empire. It draws on histories of colonial India, political and cultural geographies to situate map-making and bordering within the larger history of the Empire.

I am a historian by training with a specialisation in environmental and economic histories of colonial India. I have previously worked at Gateway House, a foreign policy think-tank where my research focused on historical dimensions of geopolitics in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. 

This research is part of an AHRC-Northern Bridge funded collaborative project between Durham University, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). A description of the project can be read here.