College: Churchill
Supervisor: Prof. Helen Anne Curry & Prof. Richard Staley
Thesis topic: Knowledge making practices and scientific expertise in militarised pastoral environments.
Thesis title: Armed and Arable: The Greening of a Cold-War Archipelago (1942-2022)
Research interests: Agricultural sciences; global environmental histories; military history; modern warfare; surveillance; militarised visual culture; histories of conservation and environmentalism; histories and politics of environmental management; ethics and governance of global supply chains; biotechnologies and biosciences; ecology; governance of global supply chains; imperial histories; archipelagic thinking; the edges of the Atlantic Ocean.
Funding: Gates Scholar & part of Wellcome Trust funded research project 'From Collection to Cultivation'.
Teaching (2022/23)
During the 2022/23 academic year, I will be offering undergraduate supervisions for the following papers:
- HPS Part II Paper 2: Sciences and Empires – Sciences of Territory and Population / Anthropologies
- HPS Part II Paper 6: Ethics and Politics of Science, Technology and Medicine (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge)
- HSPS Tripos Part 1: Introduction to Sociology - Modern Societies I (SOC1)
Previous supervision (2021/22): HPS Part II Paper 6: Ethics and Politics of Science, Technology and Medicine (Science and Activism)
Roles
- Decolonise HPS Working Group
- Feminist HPS Reading Group (2021-): https://hpsfeminist.wixsite.com/hpsfeminist
- Learning for Purpose Co-Director, Gates Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Key publications
"Homeland Under Construction: The Politics of Domesticity Amidst War" in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Under Review (2022).
“Multispecies Mediations: Boundaries of Life in the Extractive Zone", in The Promise of Multispecies Justice, Forthcoming (2022).
"Phenotypic Personhood: Epigenetics and the Biolegality of Processing Asylum" in Biolegalities: Brave New Law (2020).
"Roundtable Review: Jasbir K. Puar, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability" in Somatechnics, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 2-3, pp. 376-500.
Other publications
2021. “Book Review: What Comes after Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Forthcoming.
2021. "Comrades & Companions." Interactive e-book (self-published). 25 May. https://vimeo.com/549473515
2020. “Emergent Practice for Urgent times.” Reflection. Sydney Environment Institute. 24 August. Available online.
2020. "Trickster’s Plant." Blog Post. Urban Field Naturalist. 20 August. Available online.
2020. "A Breath, Shared Between Two." Blog Post. Urban Field Naturalist. 22 August. Available online.
Selected Conference/Invited Presentations
2022. " The Virile Crescent: Pure Seeds, Demonstration Farms, and the British Mandate's Vision to Re-Engineer Iraq." The British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference. Queen's University of Belfast.
2022. "Turning Soldiers into Farmers: The Curative Promise of Agriculture." Part of Executive Session 'The political and ecological (dis)orders of war'. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle.
2022. “The Map, The Story, and the Photograph,” The Virtual Otherwise, Society for Cultural Anthropology – Society for Visual Anthropology Biennial Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Virtual.
2022. "Seeds of War? Agricultural Expertise and the Governance of Militarised Landscapes." Gates Day of Research. University of Cambridge.
2022. "Ghostly Oil: Spectral Storytelling within the Industrial Zone." Graduate Workshop on Environmental Multimodal Methods. UPenn/Harvard. Online.
2021. “An Extractive Science? Complicated Industries and Crude Natures.” 4S Annual Conference. Panel: Toxic Goodness - Harmful Legacies, Hopeful Futures. Online.
2021. “Wet Air: Living within an Atmosphere of Extraction.” 4S Annual Conference. Panel: Diseased Landscapes - Health and Illness in Territories of Extraction. Online.
2021. “Multispecies Mediations in a Post-Extractive Zone (ft. discussion with Carla Freccero).” Multispecies Justice Events. Online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qopc-1L7JLg
2021. “Drilling for a Theory: Epistemic Extraction in the Oilfields of Baku.” EnviroLab Graduate Conference (Conference Panel: ‘Patchy’ Places and Ecologies of Capitalism). University of Pennsylvania. Online. https://vimeo.com/520199280
2020. “Boundary Lines in Entangled Worlds: Fieldwork Reflections.” Gender and Cultural Studies Work-in-Progress Presentation. Online.
2020. “Post-Extractive Dreams: Reimagining Nature in the Industrial Zones of Baku.” University of Sydney SSPS HDR Event. Online.
2020. “Multispecies Mediations: Boundaries of Life in the Post-Extractive Zone.” Multispecies Justice Collective. Online.
2020. “Pipeline Watermelons: The Convergence of Petrochemical and Agricultural Technologies in Azerbaijan.” Imperial Terroir Conference/Workshop. Melbourne.
2019. “De(naturalising) the Sovereign: The Multispecies Allies and Enemies of the Azerbaijani Nation-State.” Everyday Militarism Symposium. Sydney.
2018. “Apocalyptic Ableism: Troubling the Discourse of Preparedness and Proactivity within Disability-Inclusive Emergency Responses.” The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference. Melbourne.
2018. “Bio-Polygraphs, Nonconsensual Data, and the Suspicious Body of the Unaccompanied Minor.” 4S Sydney TRANSnational STS Conference. Sydney.
2018. “Inside the Storm, Outside the Law: Extrajudicial Emergency Responses and the Withdrawal of Disabled Rights in the Era of Climate Change.” Narratives of Climate Change Symposium. Newcastle, Australia
2018. “Viral Posts, Viral Fears: A Biopolitical Analysis of the 'European Migrant Crisis' through Hungarian Social Media Content.” Nations in Cyberspace Conference. Budapest, Hungary.
2018. “Weathering powers, weathered bodies: an examination of disability and ecological ableism in the era of climate change.” Australian Anthropological Society Conference. Adelaide, Australia.
2017. “Like That Neoprene, Thick and Pliable: Rewriting Neuropathic Pain Scales and Verbal Descriptors through the Genre of Pain Memoirs.” Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Conference. Sydney.
2017. “Off-Tempo, On Duty: Crip Work, Non-Compliant Temporalities, and the Challenge of a Chrononormative NDIS.” Law, Literature & the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference. Melbourne.
2017. “Safety in Numbers? Algorithmic Feminism and the Use of Gender (Big) Data for Women's Health and Wellbeing.” UTS Feminists at Law - Revisiting Identity Symposium. Sydney.
Awards
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Academic Merit Prize, University of Sydney (2018)
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Raewyn Connell Prize in Sociology Theory, University of Sydney (2018)
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University of Sydney Qualitative Methods Prize, University of Sydney (2017)
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Award for Academic Excellence, University of Sydney (2013)
