About
I did my PhD at the London School of Economics, with a thesis exploring the ethics and practices of journalistic witnessing in South Sudan, that was awarded the Firoz Lalji PhD Thesis Prize in 2020. I have an MA in Media studies from Rhodes University and an MPP in public policy and conflict from Universität Erfurt. Before arriving at Liverpool, I was a a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Media at Risk at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and an assistant professor at the Center for Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands
I am broadly interested in the practical and philosophical issues that arise when violence, media and ethics intersect. This includes work on the ethics and practices of witnessing in wartime and humanitarian situations; affect and emotion in journalism and media work; humanitarian communication; the mediation of war; ethics of humanitarian image-making and circulation and the epistemic structures of conflict spaces. I've published in journals including Journalism, Journalism Practice and Media, War and Conflict, as well as presenting at IAMCR, ICA and ISA. I'm also presently the chair of the ECREA temporary working group on the ethics of mediated suffering, the coordinator of the Witnessing reading group, and the desk editor for Media, War and Conflict.
For prospective PhD students, I welcome proposals related to violence and media, ethics, the practice of journalism under adversarial conditions and topics relating to media work in Africa more broadly.
My office hours for semester 1 are 10h30 to 12h30 in office G40.