Monograph
2023 - Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (University of California Press)
Winner of the Constance Blackwell Prize, International Institute for Intellectual History
Edited Collection
2025 - Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out (University of London Press) [editor with Laura Carter and Philip Harling and co-author of introduction with Laura Carter]
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
2024 - ‘Shipping the Color Line: Migration and Transport Policy in the British Empire, 1943-1951’, Journal of British Studies, 63/4 (Oct. 2024), 810-35
2024 - ‘Finding modernity in England’s past: social anthropology and the transformation of social history in Britain, 1959-1977’, History of the Human Sciences 37/3-4 (Jul./Oct. 2024), 106-129
Winner of the History of Human Sciences ECR Prize
2024 -‘Malinowski’s politics: between imperial trusteeship and colonial trade’ in One Hundred Years of Argonauts: Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology (Berghahn) ed. Chris Hann and Deborah James
2023 - ‘Bringing the Emigration State Back in’, The Political Quarterly, 94/2 (Apr./June 2023), 298-305
2022 - ‘Emigration state: race, citizenship and settler imperialism in modern British history, c. 1850-1972’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 35/2 (June 2022), 170-99
2020 - ‘Constructing the field in inter-war social anthropology: power, personae and paper technology’, Isis, 111/4 (Dec. 2020), 717-39
2018 - ‘Bronislaw Malinowski, ‘Indirect Rule’ and the Colonial Politics of Functionalist Anthropology, c. 1925-1940’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 60/1 (Jan. 2018), 35-57
2018 - ‘The Sociological Imagination of the British New Left: “Culture” and the “Managerial Society”, c. 1956-62’, Modern Intellectual History, 15/3 (Nov. 2018), 801-20
Other academic writing
2025 - ‘Greater Britain Getting Smaller? Review of Stuart Ward Untied Kingdom’ Political Quarterly
2024 - ‘Review of Fabrice Bensimon, Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870, Social History
2023 - ‘Review of Niamh Dillon, Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire, H-Diplo https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59228
2023 - ‘Review of Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker (eds) British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945, Contemporary British History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2241373
2020 - ‘Raymond Firth, Between Economics and Anthropology’ Berose: Encyclopédie Internationale des Histoires de lAnthropologie, 2020 http://www.berose.fr/article1926.html?lang=fr
2016 - ‘Review of Erik Linstrum, Ruling Minds – Psychology in the British Empire’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 52/3 (July, 2016), 306-8
2015 - ‘Disrupting the disruptors: technology, politics and back-end morality’ Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 59 (2015), 78-85