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I joined the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at Ò»±¾µÀ in 2019.

I am a historian broadly interested in intersections between left-wing politics and the psy’ disciplines, including histories and theories of radical psychiatry, Communist and anti-Communist theories of the mind, histories of Freudo-Marxism (as both intellectual theory and clinical practice), and emotional histories of the left.

My first monograph Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History was published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan series 'Mental Health in Historical Perspective' in 2020.Ìý

My second book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat was published by Verso in 2024. Structured around eight concepts – melancholia, nostalgia, depression, burnout, exhaustion, bitterness, trauma and mourning ­– Burnout explores emotional experiences of political defeat, disillusionment and depletion in historical perspective.Ìý

I was awarded an Early Career Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust for a postdoctoral project exploring social scientific projects based at institutions in the US that investigated the 'Soviet mind' at the dawn of the Cold War (2019-2022). I have since been awarded a Wellcome Trust University Award to research international campaigns against the political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR. I am currently working on an academic monograph (under contract with Oxford University Press), which emerges from these two research projects, titled Communist Cases: Soviet and Chinese Emigres, US Social Science and the Cold War.ÌýI am also working on a trade book project on the long 1990s and 'the end of history'.

Before joining Ò»±¾µÀ in 2019, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the ICI Berlin from 2016-2018, taught at Bard College Berlin and Leuphana Universitaet in Germany, and held ISSF Wellcome fellowships in Medical Humanities at Birkbeck and the University of Leeds. Prior starting my Phd, I spent five years working in theatre administration and production in London.Ìý

I've written for both academic and non-academic publications on topics including rayon stockings, gender and the death drive, utopian pedagogy, Communist motherhood, wrinkles, the aesthetics of fMRI, Soviet babies, revolutionary commemoration, British antipsychiatry, depression, perfume, and Ulrike Meinhof’s brain. I have published pieces on film for Another Gaze, Tribune, Jacobin, and ±Ê²¹°ù²¹±è°ù²¹³æ¾±²õÌýand voted in the Sight and Sound Critics Poll in 2022.

I have been part of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective since 2016. I’m also a contributing editor atÌý±Ê²¹°ù²¹±è°ù²¹³æ¾±²õ.Ìý