My AHR review of @lydiawalker.bsky.social's States-In-Waiting is now live! I reflect on the book's methodological and theoretical contributions to global histories of decolonisation. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... #books #historians #decolonisation #globalhistory

Looking forward to presenting at Birkbeck tomorrow!

Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link) Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

London friends: please come along to my talk in a couple of weeks. I’ll be talking about some of the ideas from my next project. Would love to see you there (or online)!

Incredible article on the problems of citizenship in the aftermath of empire and refugees’ use of air travel to carve out a space for themselves between exclusionary and conflicting immigration regimes.

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Today is the anniversary of the 1962 signing of the New York agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands, leading to the recolonisation of West Papua. In my Humanity article, I explore the events leading up to this: humanityjournal.org/issue13-1/a-... Message me if you want a copy!

Our new series of short videos showcases the work of our interdisciplinary experts in HaSS Cornwall at @exeter.ac.uk . The latest features Emma Kluge on how our Environmental Humanities research and teaching reorients our historical and political narratives from the perspective of the ocean.

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...

'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability. Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos: youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...

Creating a 'spare parts' document for writing I'm not yet willing to cut is still my most effective way of killing my darlings while doing revisions. Do I ever put these things back into the text? No. Do I need to pretend that I might? Yes, every time.

It was a pleasure to be part of this special issue on Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial contexts. If you want to see the full SI (and check out my article on West Papuan petitions) you can find it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Excited to be at #AAPS2025. The conference is to a great start with Rev Dr Cliff Bird delivering the Epeli Hau’Ofa lecture. Looking forward to listening to all the wonderful work happening in Pacific Studies across the region.

New special issue of 'Australian Journal of Biography and History' publishing tomorrow! ‘Oceania Lives’ is the result of years of collaborative research by the Pacific-led Oceania Working Party (OWP) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Register your interest: doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.09.2025

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday’s #esshc2025 panel was such a joy. Talking about anticolonial mobilisation with the global history gang @riakapoor.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social and @emleake.bsky.social. Thanks to Anne-Isabell Richard for chairing and the audience for great engagement. Feeling inspired!

Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

Really enjoying being part of this conference! Such an interesting range of papers.

Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

Fantastic initiative for those hoping to publish in the Journal of Global History!

I'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

In New York for my first American Historical Association conference! #aha25

Looking forward to this! Our Cornwall department might be small but it’s so cool that we teach both Pacific and Caribbean history modules and bring them into conversation with the Environmental humanities.

New here! I’m a historian who expands global histories of decolonisation to include Pacific and indigenous peoples. I work on anticolonialism and environmentalism in Oceania and am increasingly convinced you can’t talk about one without the other (even though that’s what I did in my first project).