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I am an architectural and urban historian with an interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and its relationship with the transatlantic world and (post)colonial Africa.

I have co-developed and currently direct a new Master's degree in urban studies which aims to train graduates to think beyond divisions of urban versus rural and North versus South in order to address the complexity of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century.

My current book project interrogates the entangled histories of empire and the environment, focusing on Germany and sub-Saharan Africa. Tentatively titled “The Earth that Modernism Built” it examines how environmental thinking has shaped the rise of modern architecture and urban planning since the late nineteenth century.

SAH, EAHN, SACRPH