I joined the University of Glasgow in 2021 and I teach courses in Central and Eastern European Studies and in the School of Social and Political Sciences, including the Honours field trip to Belgrade. Since 2023, I have also acted as the GTA Convenor in CEES. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a particular interest in innovative and inclusive pedagogy. In 2024, I joined the leadership of the Division of Politics and International Studies Innovative Pedagogy Hub. 

Before joining CEES, I worked at the University of Stirling as a Module Coordinator and Subject Teacher on the Pre-Masters programme at INTO University of Stirling from 2018-2021. In this role I designed courses and supervised dissertations for international graduates in the Social Sciences aimed at preparing them for Masters level study in UK universities. 

I received my PhD in History at the University of Glasgow in 2018. The thesis focused on  American medical personnel who served in the Vietnam War. The project was funded by the College of Arts PhD Scholarship and the William and Margaret Kesson Award. During that time I was a visiting researcher at the American Folklife Center in the US Library of Congress and a Summer Scholar at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. Before that I completed an M.Phil in American Studies in 2014 at the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, also at the University of Glasgow. 

My current research projects include a comparative analysis of trauma and resilience in US-Vietnam War and Soviet-Afghan War veterans. I am also working on research on the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching on the use of active learning and student-led approaches to teaching Area Studies. 

My research interests include:

• The United States, the Soviet Union and the GDR in the Cold War era 
• The US-Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War  
• Oral history, narrative and memory studies 
• Ideology and narratives of war in the 20th and 21st centuries  
• Trauma and resilience in veteran communities 
• PTSD and Moral Injury 
• Combat Medicine and Psychiatry from 1914-present 
• The Global War on Terror  
• Post-War memory and reconstruction in the GDR and Yugoslavia

Research groups

• Central & East European Studies

CEES 1A: Central and Eastern Europe in the Age of Stalin 

CEES 1B: Communism and its Collapse 

CEES 2A: Post-Communist Russia and the Former Soviet Union 

CEES 2B: Central and South-East Europe after Communism 

CEES Honours, Monuments and Memories: the Legacies of Communism Field Trip 

CEES Honours Dissertation 

Research Design (PGT, School of Social and Political Sciences)

Designing your Security and Area Studies Research Proposal (PGT)