Staff profile

I am an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of critical international relations, political/legal anthropology, and postcolonial studies. My research focuses on how the intertwined legacies of both colonialism and the Shoah/Holocaust shape the politics of justice, race, and security in western Europe and, more broadly, the contemporary reactionary international order. I hold a PhD from Columbia University, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining SGIA in 2026, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 

I am currently completing a monograph based on over a decade of international multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork entitled "Grammars of the Shoah: German Settler Colonialism and its Aftermath" which deals with the legacy of the Herero and Nama genocides and how they have been apprehended in contemporary Germany. The project explores: 1) how the legacy of Holocaust reparations informs present-day struggles for justice in the context of settler-colonial genocide and 2) how the rise of the far-right in Germany and in Europe more generally is linked to settler colonialism elsewhere. I have published on this research in the journal Humanity (winner of the journal’s 2023 best-article prize) and Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 

Alongside this work, I am co-developing the field of Critical Jewish International Studies with Dr Darcy Leigh which interrogates how narratives of Jewish redemption by non-Jewish actors in the West have contributed toward the colonial underpinnings of the liberal international order — including western support for ongoing Palestinian dispossession. This is the ground for my second monograph.  

Other research and writing I have published or in progress examines the relationship between reparatory justice and anti-imperialism; the role of Holocaust reparations in the making of Jewish peoplehood; and the relationship between political Zionism, colonialism, and philosemitism. Work on such topics appears in E-International Relations, and the Journal of Intercultural Studies. My research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Free University of Berlin, Sciences Po Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History. I am an award-winning teacher, being recognised by my students with the LSE Students’ Union 'Inclusive Teaching Prize' for my teaching on the topic of Genocide. I am very happy to support any students interested in my areas of research.

• Race, Colonialism, and Empire
• Critical International Law
• Political Ethnography
• Critical Jewish Studies
• Genocide and Political Violence
• Europe and the Far-Right