I am a senior lecturer in contemporary history of humanitarianism at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. I joined HCRI in 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris and was appointed as lecturer in 2020. I hold a History PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2 and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). I am currently the PI of an ESRC New Investigator project (2025-2028) on age in border policing in Britain and France.

My research focuses on children in modern situations of war and displacement. My doctoral thesis was a transnational analysis of the resettlement of a group of young Holocaust survivors from Europe to Canada. It retraced the trajectories of these young people and examined the discourses of the various actors (NGOs, immigration agents, health professionals) that participated in their resettlement. This resulted in a history that both shed light on population management and border policing practices and took into consideration the experiences and voices of the young survivors. It has received four best doctoral dissertation awards from the Fondation Auschwitz (2018), the French Association of Canadian Studies (2018), the International Council for Canadian Studies (2019), and the Faculty of Humanities at the Université du Québec À Montréal (2019).

My doctoral research was the starting point of two fully funded two-year projects around border policing, refugeedoom, and childhood. The first was a comparative history of Jewish refugee activism in Britain and Canada in the 1940s and 1950s funded by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. The second was an in-depth analysis (including the collection of twenty testimonies) of how Holocaust child-survivors narrate their post-war journeys. This project was funded by the Fondation Claude Levy in Strasbourg and resulted in a teaching toolkit for highschool students on Jewish children during the Holocaust.

My ongoing ESRC-funded project "Who is a child? Determining age in British and French border policing, 1918 to the present" aims to examine how age (and age-based categories such as childhood) shape practices and experiences of border policing.

I am open to discuss doctoral and post-doctoral projects around children and young people in situations of conflict and displacement, history of migration and refugees, and genocides.

Current supervisions

Since 2023: Charlotte Doggett, ESRC-funded PhD with Plan International, ‘Capturing forgotten voices: adolescents’ experiences of displacement and humanitarian action’ (with Birte Vogel)

Since 2024: Míriam Vercher, AHRC-funded PhD, ‘From hero to traumatized victim? Spanish refugee children and debates about refugee mental health in the mid-20^th century’ (with Laure Humbert)

Since 2025: Amelia Curtis, NIHR pre-doctoral award, 'Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children’s experiences of care and transition from childhood to adulthood in Britain' (with Rubina Jasani)

Past supervisions

2021-2025: Niamh Hanrahan, HCRI-funded PhD, ‘An Asian refugee crisis? Humanitarian relief of Jewish refugees in Hong Kong, Kobe, Manila and Surabaya (1931-1953)’

2021-2025: Panagiotis Karagkounis, HCRI-funded PhD, ‘Forced Resettlement, Humanitarianism and the “Logic of Development”: The Greek case and the Near East, 1920s-1950s’