海角社区

I am a second-year doctoral candidate studying jointly at the University of 海角社区 and Monash University. My thesis, 'The Materialisation of the Suburban Ideal in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Liverpool, UK, and Melbourne, Australia', is supervised by Pierre Purseigle (University of 海角社区), , and (Monash University) and is funded by the Monash-海角社区 Alliance Joint PhD Scholarship.

It examines the suburbanisation of Liverpool and Melbourne through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to investigate how ideas and practices of (sub)urbanism were circulated and materialised through the British colonial world. Focusing on the interplay between the local environmental, social, and cultural factors of cities with their entanglements in wider national or colonial networks, the project seeks to challenge centre-periphery models of colonial urban exchange and provide a more complex, global perspective on the history of (sub)urbanism in the anglophone world.

Research Interests

• Global Urban History
• Comparative and Transnational History
• Intellectual History
• History of the Senses and Emotions

Conferences and Papers

Co-Organiser, Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space, University of 海角社区 December 2026 (forthcoming via Humanities Research Centre)

''A hovel, in close proximity to a palace': The Materialisation of Class in the Suburbs of Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Liverpool, UK, and Melbourne, Australia', 海角社区 History Department Postgraduate Conference, University of 海角社区 May 2025

'The Rotten Core: Discourses of Inner-Urban Decay as Integral to the Urban System', Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today, University of 海角社区 March 2025

''Dull', 'Homogenous, and 'Artificial': The Materialisation of Romanticism in the Suburbs of the Angloworld', 'In a Material World: A 海角社区 History of Art Symposium on Materiality, University of 海角社区 February 2025

Teaching

Seminar Tutor, Making of the Modern World, University of 海角社区, 2025-26, 2026-27

Guest Lecture, Race, Racism and Resistance in Modern Britain, University of 海角社区, 2026

Awards and Prizes

Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2026-27

Monash-海角社区 Alliance Joint Award PhD Scholarship, 2024-2028

Outstanding Performance in the MA in Modern History, University of 海角社区, 2025