| Employment | |
| 2016-Present | Professor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham |
| 2010-2016 | Associate Professor, University of Nottingham |
| 2005-2010 | Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Nottingham |
| Research Posts | |
| 2002-2005 | Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge |
| 2003-2004 | ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge |
| Education | |
| 2010 | American Institute of India Studies Hindi Autumn Language Program, Jaipur |
| 2006-2009 | Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Nottingham |
| 1999-2003 | PhD, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; Colonial Governmentality: Spaces of Imperialism and Nationalism in India’s New Capital, Delhi 1911-47 |
| 1996-1999 | BA (Hons), Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Double First with distinction. |
| 1989-1996 | Kimberley Comprehensive School and Sixth Form |
| Awards/Scholarships/Fellowships/Collaborations | |
| 2023- | Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Historical Geography |
| 2021-22
2020-22 |
Independent Social Research Foundation Mid-Career Fellow
Editor of the Journal of Historical Geography |
| 2019- | Editorial Board member of Bloomsbury book series “Histories of Internationalism“ |
| 2019- | Advisory Board member on HERA funded project “The Scientific Conference: A Social, Cultural, and Political History“ |
| 2018- | Carnegie Trust Research Assessor |
| 2017- | Editorial Board, South Asian Studies |
| 2015-20 | Principle Investigator on AHRC grant-funded project “Conferencing the International: a cultural and historical geography of the origins of internationalism (1919-1939)“ |
| 2015-18 | Director, Urban Cultures Network, University of Nottingham |
| 2015-16 | British Academy Mid-Career Fellow |
| 2014- | Member of the International Advisory Board to the Editorial Collective of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography |
| 2013- | Advisory Editorial Board Member, Espaço e Cultura journal (Brazil) |
| 2013- | Management Board, Asia Research Institute (formerly the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies), University of Nottingham |
| 2012- | AHRC Peer Review College member |
| 2012 | British Association of South Asian Studies South Asian Governmentalities Research Group Workshop Grant |
| 2011-12 | Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| 2011 | College Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London |
| 2010 | Philip Leverhulme Prize |
| 2009-2010 | British Association of South Asian Studies South Asia Conference Grant |
| 2009 – | Co-convenor, with Deana Heath, of the South Asian Governmentalities Research Group of the British Association for South Asian Studies, British Academy
Collaborator on “Placing People in Colonial Cities: The Social Geography of Bombay and Calcutta, c.1900” (funded by the Canadian SSHRC, principal investigators being Richard Harris, McMaster University, and Robert Lewis, University of Toronto) |
| 2008 – | Steering Committee for “Diaspora Cities: imagining Calcutta in London, Toronto and Jerusalem” project, Queen Mary, University of London |
| 2007-2008 | British Academy Overseas Conference Grant |
| 2006-2007 | Royal Geographical Society, Small Research Grant
University of Nottingham, New Lecturer’s Fund Fellow of the Higher Education Authority |
| 2005-2006 | Registered practitioner of the Higher Education Authority
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship British Academy Overseas Conference Grant Dudley Stamp Memorial Fund, Royal Society |
| 1999-2002 | ESRC PhD funding |
| 1999 | Cambridge University, Fitzwilliam College Scholar of the Year |
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