I joined the University of Glasgow as a Leverhulme postdoctoral researcher in September 2025 to work on my project titled ‘French and British ‘Left Behinds’: Race, Gender, and Class Identity’. Prior to joining Glasgow, I was a lecturer at the University of Warwick, teaching on political theory and international development (with a focus on race and gender), and completed my PhD in political theory at Queen Mary University of London with a thesis on anti-populism and the crisis of ‘liberal democracy’. I have also taught for 5 years at Queen Mary and King’s College London, and am an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

My current research focuses on the discursive construction and lived realities of the competing discourses around ‘the people’ and the working class and the role of such discourses in the reproduction, transformation and challenges made to capitalist states – and particularly on the processes of racialization of the ‘working class’ in France and the UK. 

In the context of multiplying reactionary discourses claiming to defend the ‘working class’, the project I am undertaking at Glasgow aims to critically examine claims made on behalf of the working class, in order to probe the internal coherence of what these reactionary discourses often call a ‘white working class’, and to understand what defines the working class today. This will be achieved through a combination of archival and political discourse analysis, ethnographic fieldwork and filmic sociology which together enable integrated analyses of both top-down discourses on class and bottom-up discourses of class. This project is funded by a grant I was awarded from 2025 to 2028 from the Leverhulme Trust and the LKAS scheme at the University of Glasgow.

Aside from this, I am also undertaking short terms consultancy research work, such as annual reports on French politics for Freedom House. I also co-convene the French Politics Specialist Group of the PSA (Political Studies Association) in the UK.

I am happy to engage with the following topics: class and class consciousness; capitalism - with a particular focus on the state, gender and race; populism and anti-populism; discourses about 'the people'; contemporary left politics and protests; the mainstreaming of the far-right; and with the following approaches: critical discourse analysis, Marxism and post-Marxism, political sociology, cultural studies, political economy and race critical, decolonial and postcolonial studies.

Research groups

• Sociology

Prior publications