I’m an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University and an associate member of Brasenose College at the University of Oxford. I am also a member of the 2025–27 Executive Committee of the International Studies Association’s Historical International Relations Section.
Previously I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Antwerp, a William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, and an Oxford Martin Fellow on the Changing Global Orders programme.
I completed a DPhil in International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford (2023), for which I received the APSA 2025 Merze Tate Award and the 2024 Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in IR. Based on this, my first book is out now with Oxford University Press. My research won the Barbara W. Tuchman Prize (2023), the ISA Prize for Best Graduate Paper in IR Theory (2023), the Fred Hartmann Award (2022), and the EISA Best Graduate Paper Award (2021).
My research concerns the history and theory of international organisations, and has been published in International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and the Review of International Studies. Some of my writing has also appeared in TIME Magazine, The New Statesman, Jacobin, The TLS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets.