I am a social anthropologist focused on the politics of criminalisation, with particular interest in how cultural practices are framed, regulated, and repressed through legal and institutional mechanisms. My research is grounded in ethnographic and archival work conducted in Brazil, Jamaica, and Malta, and engages critically with questions of state power, marginality, and resistance. I am especially concerned with the intersections of drug policy, punitive governance, and racialised and classed regimes of control.

Before joining the University of Manchester, I taught at the University of Liberia, contributing to undergraduate and graduate programmes in Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Peace Studies. My teaching and research sit at the intersection of political anthropology, critical criminology, and social justice scholarship. At Manchester, I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Criminology and the Social Sciences.

I am currently Course Unit Director for:

• CRIM70542 Evaluating Policy & Practice
  
  
• SOCS33111 Understanding Global Governance
  
  
• SOCS22111 Understanding Violence and Social Conflict
  
  
• SOCS10201 Understanding Social Injustice
  
  

I also teach on:

• CRIM70572 Drugs: Markets, Policies and Consumption
  
  
• CRIM30620 BA Dissertation: Qualitative Data Analysis Pathway (Pathway Lead)
  
  
• CRIM30601 Drugs and Society
  
  
• SOCS10111 Engaging with Social Research

By appointment via email: [email protected]