Academic Profile

• 2016-2017: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British, University of Warwick
• 2014-2015: Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• 2014: PhD with Distinction, Yale University
• 2010: MPhil with Distinction, Yale University
• 2007: MA in Early Modern History, Boston College
• 2005: BA(Hons) in History, University of Maryland

 
Research

History of crime, criminal justice and the law; the British world in the long eighteenth century; comparative legal history; history of institutions, administration and state formation; social history of the early modern Britain and its empire; gender, ethnicity and immigration in Britain and the Americas, 1500-1800; the making of the modern state.

 
Teaching

• HI209 Social History of England, 1500-1700 (undergraduate second-year option module)

 
Publications

Books

Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern British State, Yale University Press [summer 2017]

This Unhappy Rebellion: Punishment, Exile and Empire after the American Revolution [in progress]

Published Journal Articles

• "‘Love Ye Therefore the Strangers:’ Foreign Residents and the Criminal Law in Early Modern England, 1670-1750," Continuity and Change, Volume 29, Issue 3 (Dec., 2014).
• "From Treason to Homicide: Changing Conceptions of Petty Treason in Early Modern England," The Journal of Legal History, Volume 34, Number 1 (April, 2013).