I am an international historian with an interst in the international history of Global South-Global North Relations.

Ongoing Research Projects 

  • ‘African Non-Alignment and Environmental Justice’ 
     

    I am currently involved as a co-applicant in the research project “A Non-Aligned Space of Cooperation: History, Legacy, Entanglements", the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padova, Italy, July 2024-May 2026. (SPS/06 STORIA DELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI, IUS/13 DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE). 

 

  • The New International Environmental Order: An International History of The Global South and Environmental Justice (1970s-1980s) (articles in progress)

 

  • Moral Empire: Belgium and the Global South (1830-2020)  (Book manuscript in progress)

 

Past Research Projects 

August 2023-July 2024  (completed)
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) – THE NETHERLANDS –  PI 
Grant type: NWO Open Competition Project/NWO Open Competition Project (Individual sabbatical year) I Project title: ‘Moral Empire: Belgium and the Global South, 1830-2020’. [Dossier number: 406.XS.01.067]

January 2020- January 2023 (completed) 
Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom (AHRC) – THE UNITED KINGDOM – CO-APPLICANT
Grant type: Development Grant (collaborative project with Christopher Vaughan, Alden Young and P J O'Reilly) I Project title: “Regionalism in East Africa c. 1900 to the present” with (January 2020-January 2023). [Ref. AH/T003138/1] Subproject: ‘The Relation between the EU and the East African Federation’

January 2016- January 2018 (completed)
The National Research Foundation of South Africa – SOUTH AFRICA – PI 
Grant type: Scarce Skills-Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship (individual fellowship)
Project title: “The African Perception of the European Integration (1945-2000)”