I’m a global historian of Europe and decolonization. As a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, I teach and write about anticolonial movements and transnational solidarities in the 20th century.

My dissertation project, One Struggle: A Global History of the Irish Republican Movement, 1956-1994, tells the story of how the Irish Republican Army (IRA) joined forces with Third World liberation movements to continue resisting British rule for decades after the official “end of empire.”

By examining how solidarity activists forged relationships between Irish, Palestinian, and South African revolutionaries, I hope to challenge both the traditional timeline of decolonization as well as popular framings of these struggles as ethnic conflicts.

My research is informed by my work as a journalist and activist. Before coming to Berkeley, I worked with the Chicago Innocence Center, Progress Michigan, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights to challenge human rights violations from the Flint Water Crisis to the US-Mexico border.

My writing has appeared in the Dublin Review of Books, Hong Kong Review of Books, and LSE Review of Books. I’ve also written for popular media including Truthout, Common Dreams, AlterNet, and Black Agenda Report.

I hold a BSc in Journalism and History from Northwestern University and an MSt in Modern British and European History from the University of Oxford.