This fellowship was held in the Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC) of the History Department at Warwick University.
Work carried through work packages:
-WP1 Interdisciplinary literature review and conceptual work.
This WP has spanned the entire duration of the action and has entailed intensive work on secondary specialised literature in libraries and monthly meetings with the supervisor and other academics at Warwick University to discuss the historiographies and the concepts around which the project was geared.
-WP2 Archival research. Data gathering and analysis of primary sources.
WP 2 has spanned the entire duration of the project and has entailed intensive work on primary sources held at Warwick University (BP archives), the British Library, the UK National archives, French National Archives, Total Archives (Paris), UCLA Special collections, Chicago University Library special collections and the Huntington Library in Los Angeles.
-WP3 Training courses delivered at Warwick
The fellow acquired a basic command of Persian, attending a beginners’ course at the Language Centre at the School for Oriental and African Studies in 2019/20. She familiarised herself in digital humanities methods through courses delivered by the research exchange at the Learning and Development Centre. She also attended sessions on grant applications delivered by the Impact officers. This led her to successfully secure just after the end of her MSCA a postdoctoral fellowship for the next four years in a major ERC project (CAPASIA, grant agreement No 101054345, PI Prof. Giorgio Riello) hosted by the History Department of the European University Institute in Florence. The fellow also enhanced her expertise in Global History, the history of globalisation and Global commodities by attending activities carried by the Global History and Culture Centre.
-WP4 Outreach activities.
Through podcasts, public imoact activities and publications in newspapers, the fellow has mad her research available to a non specialist audience.
-WP5 Events (design and organisation, seminar series, workshop and conference)
The fellow was the sole organiser in July 2019 of one workshop and co-organised three international workshops and conferences.
In addition, the fellow delivered papers (in person and online) presenting results of the MSCA action at seminars and workshops in the UK, the USA, France, Brazil, Swizerland and Canada.
-WP6 Writing, editing, review (involving Supervisor, “committee”, colleagues and peer-review)
The output in terms of publications has been particularly successful and exceeded what was announced in the MSCA proposal.
-The fellow finished and published a monograph in October 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
-Two peer-reviewed journal articles were published in 2019 and 2020 (Middle Eastern Studies and Journal of Levantine Studies).
-One book chapter was published in a collective volume published by Palgrave Macmillan.
-One article is under review with Comparative Study in Society and History
-The fellow is finishing an article on a collection of photographs by a Victorian female traveller which depict the early years of oil exploitation in Persia, to submit it to the Journal of British Studies.
-The fellow is currently discussing with a UK based publisher a monograph provisionally titled Crude Empire: Britain, Oil and the Environment in the Middle East.
In addition, the fellow continued her service to the community by reviewing manuscripts proposal and journal articles.
-WP6 Pedagogical training: occasional lectures and seminars
The fellow delivered lectures and seminar on British imperialism in the Middle East and environmental history in the History Department, both at undergraduate and graduate levels, between 2017 and 2023. She co-supervised an MA dissertation in 2020-21. She is in the process of applying to become a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
