I am a DPhil student in political theory at Corpus Christi College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and teach undergraduate tutorials in Political Theory at Merton College and Somerville College.
My work is concerned with the politics of emotions, mental health, reconciliation and political apologies, as well as theories of power. I draw on a wide range of sources in my writings, including critical theory and continental political philosophy, but also sociological and psychological theory, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and analytic philosophy of language among other things. Currently, I am working on a DPhil thesis titled The Miserable is Political: A Critical Theory of Anger and Depression. It explores how emotional reactions to injustice and exploitation are increasingly depoliticised through a 'therapeutic' politics and makes an argument for why and how we should understand anger and depression as political emotions.
For my DPhil, I am a recipient of a Clarendon Scholarship and the Corpus Christi–A. E. Haigh Scholarship. Previously, I completed an MSc in Political Theory Research at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, with a thesis on the politics of mental health and generous funding from an Oxford–Trygfonden Scholarship. Before that, I studied International Relations and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen and wrote an undergraduate thesis on state apologies for historical injustices.
