About Hannah
Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth
I joined the History and Politics departments in 2021, having previously been the Plumer Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies, St Anne's College, University of Oxford. My work explores empire, rebellion, migration and the co-construction of religion and ethnicity in China’s northwest, with a particular focus on the impact of 19th century state-directed resettlements of Muslims following the Great Northwestern Rebellions, 1860-1872. An additional strand of my current work explores the impacts of contemporary Sinicization of Islam campaigns among Chinese-speaking Muslims.Broadly speaking, I am interested in histories of ethnicity and the environment, and in writing engaged histories that speak to the present.
Teaching
I teach across History and Politics departments, offering a range of courses on China, refugee studies, historical methodology, postcolonialism and the Global South.
PIR 314: Mao to Now - the Politics of Modern China
PIR 500X: Refugee Studies
IRL 204: Global Development and International Relations
HIST 522: Talking History, Seeing History: Research Methods in Oral and Visual History
Areas of expertise for supervision:
China, especially late imperial China, and/or ethnic politics
