About

I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Starting December 2021, I will be Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Political Economy & Politics of Global Development in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University.

My research is concerned with the political economy of development in the global South. I investigate how states and social forces produce, manage and contest ‘development’ projects in the Middle East and North Africa. I am the editor of States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations (with Ian Bruff).

My research has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, New Political Economy, International Political Sociology, Review of International Studies, South European Society and Politics, Globalizations, and The South Atlantic Quarterly. I teach courses on the political economy of global capitalism, historical materialism and the historical sociology of the Middle East.

I am the President of the European International Studies Association and have been an elected member of its Governing Board since 2019.