Short CV

EDUCATION – UCL, Department of History

  • PhD From Megasthenes to Sophytes: A re-examination of literary and numismatic sources for Seleucid-Mauryan relations in British and Indian scholarship.
  • MA Ancient History. Dissertation: Graeco-Roman medicine and the economic and intellectual influence of trade with India.
  • BA Ancient History.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY – British Museum, Department of Asia

  • Tabor Foundation Curator: South Asia (Nov 2018 – cont.).
  • Curator Asian Ethnographic and South Asia Collections (Apr 2016 – Nov 2018).
  • Curator Asian Ethnographic Collections (Mar 2014 – Apr 2016).
  • Curator Indian Paintings and Asian Ethnography (Nov 2013 – Mar 2014).
  • Tabor Foundation Research Assistant (Nov 2012 – Nov 2013).

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY – UCL, Department of History

  • Teaching Assistant: The Roman Empire from Augustus to Theodosius II (Sept 2010 – May 2011)

EXTERNAL ROLES

  • Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre (July 2020 –) Trustee.
  • The Wonder House (Nov 2019 –) Founder, Presenter, Producer.
  • Museum Ethnographers Group (Apr 2019 –2020) Committee Co-optee.
  • Museum Detox (Sept 2017 –2019) Curatorial lead.
  • Royal Numismatic Society (Oct 2012 – Aug 2018) Council Member & Honorary Joint-Secretary.

FUNDING AWARDED

  • AHRC 2021-24: Co-Investigator for 3-year The Sloane Lab collaborative project with UCL, British Museum, Natural History Museum.
  • AHRC 2020-23: 3-year Collaborative Doctoral Partnership award with University of Lincoln. Project title: Women Collectors of South Asia: Gender, Material Culture and Empire.
  • Art Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund, Brooke Sewell Permanent Fund 2019: Significant grants to purchase the ‘Trumpeters’ painting by Nainsukh.
  • AHRC 2018-21: 3-year Collaborative Doctoral Partnership award with University of Brighton. Project title: The Global and the National: South Asian Collectors at the British Museum.

SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP/MEMBERSHIP

  • Royal Asiatic Society (2011-)
  • Royal Numismatic Society (2012-)
  • Oriental Numismatic Society (2018-)
  • Royal Historical Society (2018-)
  • Museum Ethnographers Group (2019-2020)