I have been a lecturer in the history of Britain and the World at the University of York since 2017. In 2016 I completed my PhD in history at the University of California, Berkeley and afterwards spent a year as a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.
I specialize in the history of cities, political economy, and art-making. My first book ‘Foundations’ is about the transformation of the British built environment in the twentieth century, focussing on housing, consumption and patterns of work. Broadly I am interested in how the spaces of everyday life were altered forever in the twentieth century, and the implications of these transformations for politics.
I have also written freelance for various publications including Time Magazine, The Outline, Tribune, Renewal, Jacobin and The Blizzard and about urban planning, politics, the economy and football.