Claire earned her PhD in May 2024. Her PhD project traced the afterlives of structural power in the wake of expanded legal protections against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). It is an ethnographic account of victim/survivors’ interactions with law in Nigerian police stations and courtrooms, exploring how efforts to attain safety and justice interact with structural configurations of power (gender, race, class, and others) through testimony, doubt, and belief. During her PhD, Claire worked as a freelance writer and journalist, as well as a Research Officer at the UKRI-funded Gender Justice and Security Hub based at the LSE, where she managed projects relating to rights ‘backlashes’, transitional justice, and migration. She has done ethnographic research and journalism in Canada to the UK, the US, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Kenya, Turkey, and South Africa.

Claire’s research interests range from critical epistemology, affect, and de-colonial theory, to technology, criminal-legal systems, and other applied studies of power. She currently works as an investigative journalist covering technology, influence operations, and corruption in the UK and beyond. She holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s from the University of Toronto.