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Nadeen Moustafa
PhD Candidate
I started my PhD in 2026 under the University of Greenwich Vice Chancellor Scholarship. My thesis project is entitled 'De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025'. Specifically, my research explores how race, resistance, and refusal inhabit and unsettle Greenwich’s ordered imperial landscapes. I am interested in exploring a form of resistance that is not merely reactive but generative, as it creates new geographies of solidarity, refusal, and futurity. My multidisciplinary background allows me to perform valuable, diverse, and meticulous research that maintains authenticity and reflexivity. I completed my MSc in Empires, Colonialism, and Globalisation (International History Department) at LSE. My dissertation focused on Pan-African resistance with regards to the Haitian Revolution and its impact on black political thought. I graduated from the University of Sussex with a First Class Honours in a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. I am mostly interested in contributing my skills and knowledge towards striving for an inclusive form of education that challenges institutional racism and normative structures which undermine non-Western epistemologies.
Awards
PhD Candidate under Vice Chancellor Scholarship
Research / Scholarly interests
My research interests intersect historical method, critical theory, and postcolonial thought. My current PhD project, exploring the question ‘How do Black and diasporic communities contest and reimagine Maritime Greenwich’s spatial and historical narratives?’ makes three primary contributions. The theoretical contribution extends decolonial urban and spatial theory into a British maritime context, offering a model for reinterpreting imperial infrastructure through diasporic resistance. Methodologically, by integrating archival, ethnographic, and visual methodologies, this project develops a creative yet critical approach to mapping resistance in contested spaces. The final contribution would be political, as the project offers public and pedagogical interventions that challenge heritage industries and state-sanctioned narratives, while supporting grassroots efforts to reclaim space and memory in racialised urban landscapes. More broadly, this work engages with current debates around monuments, memory, and spatial justice in Britain and beyond. It is aligned with activist demands for decolonising public space, and offers policy-relevant insights into inclusive heritage and anti-racist urban design.