Biography:
I am an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Christ's College, studying food and religion in the European Reformations, using Protestant England and Catholic Italy as case studies, c.1560- c. 1640.
I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Warwick in 2015, and an MPhil in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge in 2016.
Research Interests
I approach the religious changes of the Reformations through 'lived religion', and am interested in how people understood and interacted with the material world in accordance with religious beliefs. My PhD project focuses on food as a uniquely ubiquitous and perishable aspect of the material world, asking how attitudes towards food and consumption practices played into early modern religious change.
My research is based on a broad range of printed and archival sources in English and Italian, as well as material culture, and included a six month research trip to Italy.
I am also keen to explore new technologies and creatives mediums in order to present academic work to a public audience, and I am therefore involved in public history initiatives at Cambridge including the blog Doing History in Public.
Research Supervision
My PhD is supervised by Professor Craig Muldrew and Professor Ulinka Rublack.
Teaching
I have experience supervising, teaching seminar groups, and lecturing in the following papers:
Part I: Paper 9 - British Economic and Social History, c. 1500-1750
Part I: Paper 4 - British Political History 1485-1714
Part I: Paper 14: Material Culture in the Early Modern World
Part II: Paper H - Food and Drink in Britain and the Wider World, c. 1550 - 1800
Part II: Historical Argument and Practice
I have also jointly run a history for schools event, aimed at KS2 (7 - 11 year olds) students.
Other Professional Activities
Co-organiser of conference 'Waste Not, Want Not: Food and Thrift from Antiquity to the Present' Upcoming September 2019
Organiser of conference 'Food and Faith in the Early Modern World' November 2018
Co-organiser of conference 'Food and Embodied Identities in the Early Modern and Modern World, c. 1500 - c. 2000' June 2018
Christ's College MCR, Ents Officer 2018-9
Graduate Digital Communications Coordinator for Early Modern History 2017-9
Co-founder and convener of AHRC-funded interdisciplinary student group 'Cambridge Body and Food Histories' 2017-9
Creator of 'Hidden History Maps' and Historical Recipes Blog
Editor at Doing History in Public 2015-7
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