Research interests

Chris is a PhD candidate at King’s College London. He is researching how the Taliban live with the psychosocial impact of violence they endured and perpetrated during the 2001-2021 US occupation. In 2023, Chris was awarded a two-year LISS DTP studentship for this work. His research draws on elements of psychology, sociology, perpetrator studies, terrorism studies, memory studies, ethnography and criminology. His primary supervisor is Dr. Kieran Mitton. His secondary supervisor is Dr. Eleonora Natale. As well as studying at King’s, Chris currently runs seminars for undergraduate International Relations students as part of the university’s Conflict and Diplomacy module. In 2023–2024 he taught War Studies students on The Global Experience of War module, where his work covered conflicts ranging from World War One, to the US war in Vietnam and the on-going Russo-Ukranian war.

Qualifications

Chris graduated with distinction from the War Studies department of King’s in 2022. He was awarded a high distinction for his dissertation ‘Did insurgencies become more barbaric after 9/11?’ and distinctions in each of his modules: The Theory and Practice of War; Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law; Conflict, Rights and Justice; Approaches to Understanding Violence and Atrocity in Civil Wars; Small Wars, Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Unmaking of the Modern Global Order.

Memberships

Chris works as a sub-editor for Genocide Studies and Prevention - an International Journal. He is a member the Conflict Research Society, Perpetrator Studies Network, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and British International Studies Association. He is also part of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s.