Rachel Singer

Doctoral Candidate,
Department of History, Georgetown University

Environmental and gender historian of early medieval northern Europe studying infectious disease and climate change.

Research Summary

Regional Expertise

I study early medieval northwestern Europe on both sides of the English Channel. I am trained as a Celticist, and my work encompasses first-millennium Britain and Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.

Interdisciplinarity

My research draws on data from the humanities and natural sciences. I work with texts, pathogen aDNA, archaeological data, palynology, and paleoclimate proxies.

Thematic Focuses

I operate in the frameworks of environmental and gender history, and my work focuses broadly on disaster. I am interested in infectious disease, climate change, monastic disturbances, and conquest.