Research Projects

I’m a maritime musicologist exploring how songs of the sea shape, preserve and challenge the ways we remember our past. My work ranges from the legacy of legendary shantyman Stan Hugill to new frameworks for understanding maritime music as a global, transnational tradition. Whether through archival research, sound studies or digital storytelling, I’m interested in how music travels – across oceans, generations and platforms – and what it reveals about identity and cultural memory.

Here you’ll find an overview of my current projects, from critical scholarship on maritime slavery to a forthcoming book on sea shanties in the age of TikTok. Each project approaches the sea as a site of cultural production and resistance, where voices continue to echo, resonate and evolve. If you’re curious, collaborative or just passing through: welcome aboard.

Click on the projects below to find out more.