Research

I am a PhD student in History at Queen’s University, Belfast.  My thesis title is “Revolutionary stories of childhood and youth: a comparative study of Trotsky and Castro”.

I have a BA in Modern and Mediaeval Languages and an MPhil in Modern European History from Cambridge University. My MPhil thesis, entitled Trotsky before 1905, explored Trotsky’s narrative of his childhood, youth and early political activism up to 1904.  I published an article, based on my MPhil research and entitled Reading Trotsky, Writing Bronstein, in the peer-reviewed journal Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 19/1).