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.