(MENAFN- The Conversation) Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton Profile Articles Activity

I am a digital historian and the Director of the UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-UK), part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). I am a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, and hold Honorary positions at both King's College London and the University of Exeter.
My research interests include twentieth century British and American history, with a particular focus on Second World War internment, immigration and minority history, historical memory, commemoration and the preservation of sites of historical memory, business history, philanthropy, and information management. For more information see

My first book, Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA is published by Bloomsbury. My edited collections include The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Public: The Legacies of David Cesarani (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War Camps, History and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2023); and The Obama Administration:
Perceptions and Encounters Beyond America (Bloomsbury, 2025).

I have previously worked in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, the Departments of History at the University of Exeter, and Royal Holloway, University of London, and have also lectured Business at Kingston University.

Experience

• 2018–present Research associate, King's College London
• 2018–present Honorary research fellow, University of Exeter
• 2024–present Senior research fellow, University of Southampton
• 2016–2018 Associate research fellow, University of Exeter
• 2011–2016 Visiting Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London

Publications

• 2021 Asian American responses to Donald Trump's anti-Asian rhetoric and misuse of the history of Japanese American incarceration, Comparative American Studies
• 2021 The Historical Presidency : From Truman to Trump: Presidents' Use and Abuse of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans, Presidential Studies Quarterly
• 2019 The Jews, The Holocaust, and The Public The Legacies of David Cesarani, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2019 'I can't remember a more depressing time but I don't blame anyone for that': remembering and commemorating the wartime internment of enemy aliens in Britain, Patterns of Prejudice
• 2017 Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA, Bloomsbury
• 2017 'Heavy Is the Responsibility for All the Lives That Might Have Been Saved in the Pre-war Years' British Perceptions of Refugees 1933–1940, European Judaism

Professional Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

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