Awards & Testimonials
John Charles Maynard Scholarship Vice Chancellor PhD, 2019 - 2023
Awarded four years of fully funded tuition, stipend and extra expenses to complete a PhD in history at the University of Greenwich. I was the first recipient of the History Research Group Scholarship in 2019. My research focuses on a history of the Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran and the Persian Gulf in the late nineteenth early twentieth century. On the impact of the award, I wrote for an article on the University of Greenwich’s website:
“John and the History Research Group’s support has been indispensable to my academic development. The generosity of the scholarship, and the supportive environment of the History Research Group has offered me a unique opportunity to pursue my research with financial, institutional, and intellectual support. Crucially, this has meant that I have been able to access important resources and networks that have been invaluable to the development of my project.”
Society of the History of Technology Travel Grant, 2022
In 2022, I received a financial grant to travel to the Society of the History of Technology (SHOT) annual conference in New Orleans to present my paper The telegraph from below: Race, labour and the Indo-European Telegraph Department 1862-1919 on the SIG Prometheans panel
Linda Hall Library Fellowship, 2022-2023
I received a three month virtual Fellowship to investigate US telegraph trade journals in the late nineteenth century from Linda Hall Library, the largest history of science and technology library in the US. On receiving the award, I was informed that:
“The members of our external review committee were quite impressed with your investigations into the workforce responsible for growing and maintaining the American telegraph network. They also agreed that your research would benefit greatly from the Library’s extensive collection of engineering books and trade periodicals.”
Olivette Otele Award Nomination, 2021
The prize was created in 2020 in response to the Royal Historical Society’s Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report which highlighted racial inequality in the field of history. The prize was named after the UK’s first Black female history professor and was designed to both raise participants’ profiles as well as financially reward labour involved in academic research.
My paper Embodying the telegraph: Racial regimes of labour in the construction and maintenance of the Indo-European Telegraph Department was shortlisted for the 2021 award. The judges gave the following feedback:
“This paper offered an excellent perspective on a gap missing in the extensive literature on the telegraph in colonial and empirical settings. It examines those on the ground and its impact, a viewpoint which compliments current studies. It is well written and interesting, with solid grounding in the historiography and methodologies employed. Overall, a really interesting, insightful paper…”
“Rose's work is making a hugely important historiographical intervention in the history of empire, communications and technology, and has the potential to have a significant impact on contemporary (and dubious) debates about so-called 'positive' legacies of empire. I found the archival work and methodology of reading against the archive to be meticulous and impressive.”
Teaching
Making the Modern World: Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Long Nineteenth Century (Greenwich Maritime Campus: Industry, Transport, and the Environment:
“It was one of my favourite classes of the year and I really enjoyed it and found I'm really interested in the topics of Industry and the Environment after his session.”