I am a PhD candidate working on my thesis, 'Ambiguous Nationality: British Subjects of Chinese descent, 1879-1962'. My doctoral research focuses on the uneven development of British colonial subjecthood alongside that of Chinese citizenship and on questions of multiple nationality, imperial border-crossing, and racialised border regimes.

In the past I have been and continue to be broadly interested in nation, race, and ethnicity in the imperial context, particularly where such categories dovetail with everyday interactions between the colonial state and the individual. I am also interested in the colonial archive and its materiality, and in mobility within and between empires.