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Sorcha is an interdisciplinary historian of twentieth century anticolonial and socialist movements. She is a SAVA Research Fellow at PACT, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.
Sorcha is an interdisciplinary historian of twentieth century anticolonial and socialist movements. She is particularly interested in the role of tricontinental movements and their solidarity networks in shaping global political agendas and imaginations. In 2024 she was awarded her PhD in the social sciences from Roskilde University, where her project analysed the Palestinian liberation movement’s solidarity networks between 1948 and 1982, from the state support of socialist Cuba to the activism of new left groups in Britain.
As SAVA Research Fellow in Global Socialisms, her current project investigates the transnationalism of Cuban agrarian reform between 1959 and the 1970s, a program of land redistribution that transformed the island and its socio-ecological relations. Focusing on the experiences, ideas and life trajectories of the international students, volunteers and delegations invited to Cuba to take part in or learn from agrarian activities, the project reconsiders the ecological dimensions and legacies of the socialist state and its tricontinental networks.
Sorcha is also a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Studies at SOAS and co-editor of the books She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women who Shaped the World (2023) and Palestine in the World: International Solidarity with the Palestinian Liberation Movement (2023). She has been an editor of the History Workshop magazine and is interested in creative practices of public history.
