These places matter because they are where questions became concrete for me: where coursework turned into fieldwork, where institutional work gained texture, and where different political contexts sharpened the comparative lens I still use.
Some are homes, some are research sites, and some are part of the route between them. Together they trace the geography behind how I think and work.
Seattle Fall City, Washington — about thirty miles east of Seattle, population not much to speak of — is where I grew up after my family moved from Australia, and where I've landed again, at least for now,... Los Angeles I spent four years in Los Angeles — all of them at Occidental College, a small liberal arts school in Eagle Rock that shaped how I think more than any other single institution. I arrived as an... New York I spent the autumn of 2023 in New York as one of thirteen Occidental College seniors selected for the Kahane United Nations Program — taking courses on human rights and conflict prevention while... Dublin I moved to Dublin in September 2024 for my MPhil in International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin, expecting to stay for a year. I stayed longer, and by the time I left I had written a... Palermo Migration studies, 2022. Studying flows across the Mediterranean — how people move, how borders function, how policy shapes both. Tunis I have spent, in total, perhaps four months in Tunisia. It has left a deeper mark than places I've lived for years. Türkiye Research focus — senior thesis case study on ethnoreligious nationalism where secularism, Islam, and national identity take a fundamentally different form. Australia I was born in Australia, and it was home until my family moved to the Seattle area when I was young. It's the first of several places I've called home — followed by Washington State, Los Angeles,...