Biography
I completed my undergraduate degree in History at Brunel University London in 2018, before studying for an MPhil in World History and a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. My doctoral thesis was titled ‘Firearm Adoption in the Societies of the lower Zambezi, 1600-1888.’
I am currently a Research Associate within the ENTANGLED Project, focused on historical material related to coastal-interior connections in southeastern Africa during the Global Middle Ages.
Research
My current research focuses on southeastern Africa and its interactions with the Indian Ocean World in the centuries before and after Portuguese entrance into that region. I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches towards exploring the sociality of trade and commercial activity, movement of commodities, and development of material culture, and am particularly interested in cross-cultural consumption – how objects can be domesticated to take on new meanings as they move across societal and cultural boundaries.
