CV

  • 2019 - Present | PhD Candidate | University of Greenwich, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, History

    2015 - 2016 | M.A. | Leiden University, International Relations - Cum laude

    2010 - 2014 | B.A. | University of Leicester, School of History, Politics and International Relations. History

  • 2019 - 2023 John Charles Maynard Scholarship Vice Chancellor PhD

    2021 - Olivette Otele Award nomination

    2022 - SHOT Travel Grant

    2023 - 2024 - Linda Hall Library Fellowship

    • Culture, Things and Empire, Virtual 21.04.21: ‘Enclaved in wires, stone and mud: Shared Anglo-Ottoman space at Faw telegraph station 1880-1914’

    • Society of the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual conference. Roundtable organizer and participant, New Orleans, USA, 20.10.21: ‘Entanglements and agencies: Local and Micro sites of infrastructures in the Global south 1840-1950’

    • Governing Through Contagion: Perspectives Across Time and Space, University of Singapore and virtual, 21.04.2022: ‘Entanglements and enclaves: British telegraph and quarantine stations in the Persian Gulf 1864 – 1928’

    • Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) and University of Nottingham UK-Iranian Relations – Expert Dialogues, discussant and participant, virtual, 17.06.2022. Selected expert on nineteenth century Iran

    • University of Greenwich Criminology Society in Conversation; Protests in Iran, virtual, 21.10.2022

    • Society of the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual conference. New Orleans, USA, 11.11.2022 'The telegraph from below: Race, labour and the Indo-European Telegraph Department 1862-1919', Engineering Empire, Globalization and Technological Change, Part A Sponsored by SIG Prometheans

    • 4S/ESOCITE Annual conference. Cholula, Mexico, 10.12.2022 'Coastal telegraphy: The Indo-European Telegraph Department in southern Iran and the Persian Gulf', Scales and Styles of Technical Systems: Insights from Histories of Infrastructure ( Session 2)

    • SHaC Postgraduate Conference: Culture, Power and Identity, University of Birmingham, UK, 05.05.2023 'Roundtable - Let’s Talk History: Convergent and diverse approaches to history from below'

    • Summer school Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, Leiden University, 26-28 June 2023, 'Telegraph clerks from below: Indo-European telegraph stations and British imperialism in southern Iran and the Persian Gulf', comments by Dr. Guido van Meersbergen

    • Iran Society, Army and Navy Club Pall Mall, 01.11.2023 ‘The Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran: Radical technology of change?’

    • Joint ICOHTEC-SHOT 2024 Annual Meeting
      Viña del Mar (Chile), 9-14 July 2024 The Care and Feeding of Communications Networks (Mercurians sponsored) Works in Progress session. "Security work as Maintenance: The Indo-European Telegraph Department in Makran in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries"

  • 2023 Lecturing and teaching - Empire and Nation in the Middle East (Greenwich Maritime Campus): The First World War and the Post-War Settlement

    Making the Modern World: Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Long Nineteenth Century (Greenwich Maritime Campus): Industry, Transport, and the Environment

    2022 Research Assistant - Research at Leiden University Special Collection for Dr Michael Talbot

    2017 - 2019 News Manager (Global) - PRIME Research - Oxford

    PRIME part of Cision global media, specialises in providing comprehensive, real-time communication research measurement to a diverse, global clientele on a variety of customisable platforms. I worked as Head of the Automotive Global News Team creating professionally edited research-led summaries for leading global and national automotive companies, providing the latest industry, product and political updates and insight.

    2015-2016 Commissioning Editor - E-IR - Virtual

    E-IR is the world’s leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. Acting as editor, I created collaborations with leading scholars, commissioned and published articles as part of a specialised team focusing on the Middle East.

  • English native speaker. Spanish writing and speaking C1/B2 and German A1, Persian Lower intermediate speaking and basic reading/writing

  • Association for Iranian Studies

    The Iran Society

    Society for the History of Science and Technology

    Society for Social Studies of Science

    The Social History Society

    Global Diplomacy Network