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I am a PhD candidate from the north of England. My dissertation research, supervised by Dr. Nancy E. van Deusen, considers witchcraft events as moments of collective and individual female spirituality, knowledge creation, and community in a confessional environment otherwise absent of such opportunities. Working primarily with transcribed accounts of possession and confession, I explore the sensuous and imaginative worlds – seen and unseen – that were performed and experienced during these exceptional events.

My work at Â鶹ÍøÕ¾ has included an annual RAship with Nancy E. van Deusen for her SSHRC-funded project on Indigenous slavery in North America. I have been a TA for HIST 223: Toxins in Global History, LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture (ASO) and HIST 283: Women and Gender in North America (ASO). I was Co-Chair of the 20th Annual McGill-Queen's Graduate History Conference, held virtually April 28th-29th 2023. I also served as the International Representative for the Graduate History Student Association in 2022-2023.

Before coming to Â鶹ÍøÕ¾ I worked at Brantwood, the former home of John Ruskin, as Collections Manager. I received my MA from Leiden University in 2017 with the thesis "Rebels, Conservatives, and the Salem Witchcraft Crisis: Exploiting the Fragile Communities of Colonial Massachusetts," for which I was the recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award from the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies.

Conference presentations

• "The Enchanted Isle," Colonial Society of Massachusetts Graduate Student Forum, Boston, May 29th-30th, 2025
• "The Performative Body in the Witchcraft Trial: Conjuring the 'Enchanted Isle,'" 71st Annual Midwest Conference for British Studies, Toronto, September 27th-28th 2024
• "A Saga for the Lake Country: Fairies, Ghosts and the Production of Knowledge in W.G. Collingwood's Thorstein of the Mere," Dalhousie University English Department Conference, Destinations and Departures, virtual, August 11th-13th 2022