Biography
I obtained my BA (hons.) in 2011 having completed a dissertation (under the supervision of Prof. Ian Talbot) examining Lord Mountbatten's role as governor-general of the then newly-independent India. After a period of volunteer teaching in the countryside of China's Guizhou province, I spent an academic year studying mandarin at the provincial university in Guiyang, before moving to Shanghai's Fudan University in order to complete a master's degree in Chinese History (2016-2018). It was while studying at Fudan that the foundation of my PhD research was laid, becoming manifest in a dissertation entitled "三线精神"：定义黔西人民工业化（1964-1978）("Third Front Spirit": Defining The People's Industrialisation of Western Guizhou, 1964-1978). I am now looking to expand on and develop that prior work in order to contemplate more fully participant memory and official commemoration of under-studied Third Front industrialisation in the P.R.C.
Other academic interests:
Historiography and contested histories
Environmental history
Peripheries
Inquiry Teams (weiwentuan) deployed during the 'Up to the mountains and down to the Countryside' campaign
Publications
