I began my university journey with a bachelor's degree in history from Royal Holloway, where I was honoured to receive the ‘Child’s Family Future Leader for History’ scholarship. Serendipitously, my budding interest in contemporary America took root there, nurtured by the invaluable guidance of Dr. Dawn-Marie Gibson. During my second year, I pursued an independent essay on 21st-century economic development in the poorest counties in the Rust Belt under her supervision. My dissertation delved into the US Civil War, examining the evolution of the Enrollment Act and its eventual move to enlist Black soldiers.
Subsequently, I earned an MPhil in American History from the University of Cambridge, being awarded the ‘Cambridge Masters & Clare Hall Boak Studentship’. Under the mentorship of Professor Gary Gerstle, I crafted a dissertation that probed the effects of neoliberal policies on Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, spanning both economic and media perspectives. I posited that Trump emerged as the logical successor to the neoliberal epoch. Now, as I transition from History to a DPhil in Politics here at Oxford, I am eager to delve deeper into my pre-existing interests while exploring new avenues of inquiry.
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