About

I study the environmental and gender history of early medieval northern Europe, particularly Britain, Ireland, and Merovingian Gaul. My work combines rigorous textual criticism with paleoscientific and archaeological data. I received my AB in History from Georgetown University in 2021 and my MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge in 2022. I am currently a PhD candidate at Georgetown University (expected May 2027).

I have published on the Black Death in the Maghreb, on a sixth-century nuns' rebellion, and on the introduction of first-pandemic plague to Britain. My current projects focus on disaster and climate change (or lack thereof!) in Gildas' De excidio Britonum, how climate history can be most useful to the current fight against anthropogenic warming, and the disease history of first-millennium Britain and Ireland.