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Research

My doctoral thesis, 'Sincerity, Deceit, and Social Identity in Britain, 1640–1740', is supervised by Dr Naomi PullinLink opens in a new window, Professor Mark KnightsLink opens in a new window, and Professor Kate LovemanLink opens in a new window (University of Leicester), and funded by the AHRC-Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training PartnershipLink opens in a new window. It investigates the religious, social, and political contexts that influenced contemporary ideas about sincerity and deceit in early modern Britain, and how these attitudes were linked to categories of identity such as rank, gender, and race. By exploring how these cultural contexts affected the everyday environments of family, friendship, community, and polity amongst non-elite people of the lower and middling sorts, it aims to construct a social history of sincerity 'from below'.

More broadly, my research interests include:

  • 17th- and 18th-century print culture
  • Work, social status, and identity
  • Religious history and popular piety
  • Family, friendship, and community
  • Early modern crime and legal history
  • The history of emotions

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Academic Profile

2022-2026, PhD History, University of Warwick

  • Thesis: 'Sincerity, Deceit, and Social Identity in Britain, 1640–1740', supervised by Dr Naomi Pullin, Professor Mark Knights, and Professor Kate Loveman
  • Funded by the AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership

2019-2020, MSc History, University of Edinburgh (Distinction)

  • Dissertation: 'Feelings, Family, and Community in English Witchcraft Pamphlets and Plays, 1566–1634,' supervised by Professor Adam Fox
  • Funded by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology's Fennell Masters Scholarship

2015-2019, BA History & Literature Honours, Suffolk University, Boston (First Class)

  • Minors in Classics and Women’s & Gender Studies
  • Dissertation: '“Aids from Nature, Join’d to the Wiles of Art”: Emotional, Social, and Theatrical Performance in Eliza Haywood’s “Fantomina” and Early Eighteenth-Century England,' supervised by Professor Michèle Plott and Professor Hannah Hudson

Courses & Qualifications

Additional Honours & Prizes

  • Excellence in Honours Award for an Outstanding Senior Project in the Humanities Division, Suffolk University, 2019
  • Excellence in Honours Award for an Outstanding Senior Project in History and Literature, Suffolk University, 2019
  • George J. Levy History Prize, Suffolk University, 2019
  • Women’s & Gender Studies Book Prize, Suffolk University, 2019
  • History Book Prize, Suffolk University, 2018
  • Honours in History – Member of Phi Alpha Theta, 2018
  • Honours in English – Member of Sigma Tau Delta, 2017

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Office Hours

Fridays 11–12, FAB 3.45

I am currently organising the conference Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain (c.1500-1750) with support from M4C and EMECC. CFP now open!

I am also organising the conference Being Human: Individualism and the Self from the Renaissance to the 21st-CenturyLink opens in a new window as part of my HRC Doctoral Fellowship AwardLink opens in a new window. Registration open soon!

I co-convene Warwick History's PG Work in ProgressLink opens in a new window sessions. Get in touch if you have any questions or are interested in giving a paper!

I am also the Communications Officer for the North American Chapter on the History of EmotionLink opens in a new window – follow us  @NACHEmotionLink opens in a new window

Read my recent review of Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America by Ana Schwartz here on H-Net's Early America networkLink opens in a new window

You can also read my post on the nonconformist shoemaker Ralph Wallis and his 1668 pamphlet Room for the Cobler of Gloucester and His Wife, written for the KCL CEMS 'Key Texts' blog seriesLink opens in a new window

See here my Warwick-Newberry Research Fellow reportLink opens in a new window on my visit to the Newberry Library in Chicago.