CURRENT POST

2021-22  Postdoctoral Researcher with the Universität Kassel         
Project: ‘The Idea of the West in the Long Twelfth Century’ funded by the Leverhulme Trust

EDUCATION

  • 2014-18  PhD, Medieval Studies                                                   
    University of York (UK)
    Dissertation: ‘The Cardinal Points and the Structure of Christian History in the Early-Twelfth Century’
    Awarded on 20 July 2019
  • 2012-13  MA, Medieval Studies                                                      
    University of York (UK)
    Dissertation: ‘The Notion of Christendom in Bishop Otto of Freising’s Philosophy of History’
  • 2008-12  BA (Hons.), History                                                          
    Queen’s University (Kingston, ON)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • 2021-22  Leverhulme Overseas Studentship                                    
  • 2019  Mark Ormrod PhD Prize                                                
    For the best PhD in Medieval Studies each year.
  • 2017-17CMS Scholarship                                                              
  • 2012-13  CMS Dissertation Award                                                 
    For the highest mark among MA dissertations.
  • 2011-12The Osborne Studd Book Prize in History                       
    Awarded annually to the student deemed to have the highest standing in a course in medieval history.
  • 2010-11  Arts 1909 School in History                                              
    Awarded annually to the student in History with the highest standing in history courses taken in the penultimate year.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

  • ‘Spatial Constructions of Christian Identity: Europa and Occidens around the First Crusade’. Oberseminar ‘Neues aus der Mittelalterforschung’, Universität Kassel. June 2021.
  • ‘Est enim gens cunctorum occidentalium facile princeps: A community of western peoples in the aftermath of the First Crusade?’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2020/21.
  • ‘Ut temporibus, ita locis: Reconsidering a Westward Progression of History in the Twelfth-century’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2019.
  • ‘What’s in a name? Etymologising Normannus in the Duchy of Normandy’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2018.
  • ‘The cardinal points and the structure of geographical knowledge in the early twelfth century’. History of Cartography Seminar, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. May 2018 (Invited).
  • ‘Western Identity in the Aftermath of the First Crusade’. SCRAMS, Post-Graduate Seminar, University of York. October 2017.
  • ‘Ut gelidus aquilo: Normans and the North in Orderic Vitalis’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2017.
  • ‘Does Evil Break Forth from Out of the North? Identity and Alterity in Twelfth-Century Universal Histories’. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2017.
  • ‘Historicising the Heavenly Jerusalem’. SCRAMS, Post-Graduate Seminar, University of York. July 2016.
  • ‘Spatializing History: The Cardinal Points and the Location of Empire in the 12th Century’. International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. July 2016.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

  • 2019  Research Assistant                                                         
    Assisting Dr Sethina Watson with a forthcoming monograph. I was responsible for editing the Latin material used throughout the monograph. This involved checking the relevance of citations, the accuracy of quotations and copy-editing the final references.
  • 2014-16, 2019  Graduate Teaching Assistant                                             
    Department of History, University of York (UK)
  • Spring Term 2019 Module Tutor on ‘Rome to Renaissance’
    Led three discussion groups of fifteen students for a first-year survey course and chose seminar topics to provide a range of case studies relating to the module themes, developed classroom activities, answered student queries and provided informal pastoral support. I marked and gave feedback on one procedural essay, an assessed essay and an open exam for each student.
  • Spring Term 2016   Module Tutor on ‘Rome to Renaissance’
    Led two discussion groups of fourteen students for a first-year survey course and chose seminar topics to provide a range of case studies relating to the module themes, developed classroom activities, answered student queries and provided informal pastoral support. I marked and gave feedback on two procedural essays, an assessed essay and an open exam for each student.
  • Autumn Term 2014    Module Tutor on ‘Making Histories’
    Taught a first-year skills module, leading two discussion groups of up to fourteen students on the ways in which historians work and how history is written and conceived. I developed seminar activities, worked with students to create their research topics for the final assessed essay.  I marked and gave feedback on formative assignments and the assessed essay and provided informal pastoral support.
  • Research Assistant                                                    
    2015  On the British Academy Project: ‘Finding your place in history and politics: the life of universal chronicles in the high Middle Ages’. Directed by Dr Michele Campopiano. I was involved in developing a bibliography on universal chronicles to augment the project and in editing the prose of non-anglophone scholars for the edited collection.

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