I am an anthropologist and historian with a research background in the anthropology of labour and the state; histories of public health and the socialist world; and histories of childcare. I have held postdoctoral positions at the University of Birmingham in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, and at Birkbeck, University of London, in the School of Historical Studies. My ESRC-funded PhD in the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College, awarded in 2020, is an account of Ethiopia’s developmental state through the lens of its lowest-level employees, and is under preparation for the International African Library, Cambridge University Press.

At Birkbeck, I was part of Connecting Three Worlds, a Wellcome-funded collaborative project, which aimed to integrate the socialist world into the history of twentieth century global health. I also held a Wellcome/Birkbeck ISSF research fellowship to develop my own linked project that looked at kindergartens in socialist Ethiopia.