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PhD projects

I am interested in hearing from prospective PhD students intending to work on public history, memory studies, and/or the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte).

Personal profile

Biography

I joined HCA in 2023 as a Lecturer in Public History. I was previously a Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer in the History of Twentieth-Century Italy and Spain at the University of St Andrews; the Macmillan-Rodewald Postdoctoral Student at the British School at Athens; and an Associate Lecturer at the University of York. I hold a BA(Hons), MA, and PhD from the University of York. My research focuses on public history, memory, and everyday life, with a particular focus on the history of the Mediterranean world.

Research Interests

I work on public history, memory studies, and the history of everyday life, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean world. I have written about memory, migration, and belonging in Greece and Turkey (Greeks without Greece, Routledge, 2019; Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2014; Journal of Migration History, 2022; Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2014), place loss, landscape, and environmental change (History & Anthropology, 2020), digital and transcultural memory (History & Memory, 2018; Memory Studies, 2021), dictatorship, conflict, and everyday life in southern Europe (Miniatures [with Kate Ferris], University of Exeter Press, 2025; European Research Quarterly, 2022); and “everyday public history” (History, 2022). I am founder and co-host of the Miniatures podcast (2020-ongoing) and I was previously co-director of the Holocaust education project Personalising History (2013-2018).

Research Groups

  • Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh
  • Institute for Transnational and Spatial History, University of St Andrews
  • Institute of Historical Research
  • British School at Athens

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

History, Memory, and Everyday Life

Based on a True Story: Representing the Past in Museums and on Screen

Themes in Modern European History

Historical Skills and Methods I

Historical Skills and Methods II

Postgraduate teaching

The ‘Dark Side’: Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritages.

Historical Methodology

Media

Founder and Co-Host of the Miniatures Podcast

Education/Academic qualification

History, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Greeks without Greece, University of York

Award Date: 20 Jan 2017

History (by Research), Master of Arts, Heirs to Byzantium, University of York

Award Date: 1 Jan 2013

History, Bachelor of Arts, University of York

Award Date: 14 Jul 2010

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