My research interests include sacred space, material culture, and the shaping of memory and identity in late-medieval and early-modern England; English monasticism; English Reformations; late-medieval and early-modern religion, especially recusancy and other forms of religious/political resistance, female piety, the Devotio Moderna, Marian devotion, and clandestine religious practice; persecution and preservation of identity and memory of religious minorities, especially the role of women, familial networks, and the mutual exchange of textual and material culture between domestic and exile networks across geographical, generational, and religious communities.

 

Highlights

 

Courses taught:

HIST 322A: The Tudors and the English Reformation: Princes, Plots, and Piety

Conferences and presentations:

“A Martyr for His Season and Thus All Seasons: Henry Walpole, S.J., Richard Verstegan, and the Elizabethan Catholic Martyr Discourse,” paper presented at the American Historical Association annual conference, 2018

"Bridging Sign & Script: the Romain F. Butin Epigraphic Collection," curated exhibition, May Gallery, John K. Mullen Memorial Library, Catholic University of America, 2015

Syriac Manuscripts Exhibit, assisted curation, to coincide with the Seventh North American Syriac Symposium, hosted at The Catholic University of America, 2015

“Searches in Sinai: the Romain Francois Butin Epigraphic Collection in Catholic University of America’s Semitics/ICOR Collections,” poster presentation, Society of American Archivists annual conference, 2014 

Awards:

Teaching Fellowship, History Department, Spring 2021

Research Grant, Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, 2019

Graduate Library Pre-professional (GLP) Program, fellowship recipient, Fall 2012-Spring 2015. Placement as assistant to curator of the Semitics and Institute for Christian Oriental Research Library (ICOR) and Special Collection