About
I am a social and cultural historian of religion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Having previously focussed on the Iberian Peninsula in the Suevic and Visigothic periods, I am presently engaged in a wider comparative project on the Atlantic regions of western Europe, which draws on case studies from from Portgual, Galicia, and the Basque Country in the south, to Ireland and Iona in the north. As part of this, I have a particular interest in comparative historiography - that is, in understanding the ways in which different regional and national scholarly traditions have laid cliam to, or inflected our understanding of different parts of the past.
I grew up in Leeds and took my first degree at the University of Oxford (BA History), before going on to further study at the University of Edinburgh (MSc Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine Studies). I then returned to Oxford for my DPhil (History). I was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2017 to 2024.
Funded Fellowships
- Shortland-Jones Rome Award (British School at Rome, 2025)
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (British Academy, 2024 - 2027)