About
I was educated at the Universities of Amsterdam, Sussex and St. Antony's College, Oxford. I completed my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in Political Science and International Relations with a focus on Latin American Politics. Before coming to Liverpool, I was a lecturer in international political economy at the University of Warwick and a lecturer in international relations at the University of Amsterdam. My previous research focused on political strategies of the labour movement in Brazil, including the Latin American regional context.
My current research focuses on the role of transnational solidarity and exile networks in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. I am also leading a project to digitise and analyse the Centro Cultural Tallersol archive in Chile (funded by the Modern Endangered Archives Program), exploring grassroots cultural resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship, whilst developing innovative networks for community-based archiving and fostering academic-activist partnerships through participatory research strategies. Another area of interest is Brazilian foreign policy, examining traditional as well as non-traditional areas of foreign policy, including environmental politics, climate change, democracy and human rights.
I regularly comment on Brazilian and Latin American politics in the media and my articles and interviews have appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, ABC Australia, Business News Radio and Bureau Buitenland VPRO (the Netherlands), France 24, Deutsche Welle, TRT International, Euronews, and in the Independent, Newsweek, Daily Mail online, the Conversation, Business Insider, Christian Science Monitor, the New Internationalist, International Peace Institute/Global Observatory, Latin American Science.org, World Weekly, Metro News Latin America, Brasil Observer, Brasil 247, Diário do Centro do Mundo (Brazil).
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prizes or Honours
- Faculty Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Award (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021)