About
I am an Associate Professor in Global Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, and the coordinator of SPIN (the Secrecy, Power and Ignorance research Network). Education
I completed my PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol (2011) and since then I have been an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex (2011-2013), a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory at the University of Copenhagen (2013), and a Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Toronto (2013-2014). Publications
My published work has appeared in a range of edited volumes and peer-reviewed academic journals including New Political Science, International Political Sociology, Review of International Studies, and the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Projects
My work is focused on US security cultures and policies, particularly with relation to the US Global War on Terror and its legacies. First, through a study of torture, security common-sense and popular culture, and then a detailed study and theorisation of visual and material power associated with detention and interrogation practices at Joint Task Force Guantanamo (Security Collisions: Guantánamo and the Materialisation of Post-9/11 Security, Routledge, forthcoming) in order to understand how controversial security practices are made visible and therefore meaningful as part of US security discourses.
My current research focus is a study of secrecy: in relation to the second decade of the US Global War on Terror and the emerging US security doctrine of ‘shadow wars’ and ‘manhunting’, but particularly in the interconnections between personal and everyday secret keeping that takes gender and race as central to secrecy, and as key to understanding power on national and transnational scales.
