Dissertation title: "Sisters of the North: Kinship, Religion, and Memory and the Women of Catholic Yorkshire, 1553-1642"
Advisor: L.R. Poos

In brief: Social historian with a background in law and cultural heritage/archival work whose research focuses on religion, law, and society in late medieval/early modern Britain, specifically on forms of political and religious resistance to state coercion. Of particular interest is the influence of women and their familial and social networks on the shaping of collective memory and identity during and after the English Reformation.

Highlights

GRANTS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2024 Conference Travel Grant, North American Conference on British Studies

2023-2025 Dissertation Guidance Impact Scholarship, School of Arts & Sciences, CUA

2023 Research grant, Cosmos Scholars, Cosmos Club Foundation

2023 Research grant, American Catholic Historical Association

2023 Dissertation research grant, Graduate Student Association, CUA

2023 Dissertation research grant, Institute for Human Ecology, CUA

2021-present Graduate Fellow, Institute for Human Ecology (IHE), CUA

2021 Grant for Rare Book School, paleography course, IHE, CUA

ACADEMIC SERVICES 

Graduate Coordinator (present), Outreach Coordinator (2023-2025), Graduate consultant (2022 to present), CUA Writing Center

Tutoring Coordinator, CUA Center for Academic Success, 2017-2018

TEACHING

Instructor, History Department, HIST 322A/522A (2021, 2023) Princes, Plots, and Piety: The Tudors and the English Reformations 

Instructor, Intensive English Program for international graduate students: ESL Language Lab (2019-2022); ESL Navigating academic lectures (2020-2022); ESL Speaking/Writing (2020-2021); ESL Listening/Speaking (2019-2021).

Teaching Assistant, History Department:  HIST 202: Food: A Global History (2019); HIST 257: The Making of America, 1607-1877 (2018).

LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Part-time, American Catholic History Research Center & University Archives, CUA, 2016-2020.

Graduate fellow, Semitics/Institute for Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) Library and Special Collections, CUA, assisted Dr. Monica Blanchard (Curator), 2014-2016.

SELECT PAPERS, POSTERS/EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Review of Who Were the Nuns? A prosopographical database in Lauren Morreale & Jennifer Paxton, “Digital Scholarship in the Field of Church History,” The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 1, 2025, pp. 130–33, https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2025.a952947.

Panel co-organizer & presenter, North American Conference on British Studies, 2024. Panel: “Reading objects within Christian communities in medieval and early modern England.” Paper: Sisters of the North: Yorkshire Catholic Women, their Networks, and Vestiges of ‘Popery.’

Presenter, American Historical Association Annual Conference, 2018. Panel: Catholic Images, Narratives, and Identities in Early Modern Europe. Paper: A Martyr for his season and thus all seasons: Henry Walpole, SJ, Richard Verstegan, and the Elizabethan Catholic Martyr Discourse. 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE 

2021-2024 Academic Senate, School of Arts & Sciences

• Committee on Academic Services, Graduate representative (2021-2024)
• Academic Dishonesty Committee, Graduate representative (2020-2021)
• Failing Grades Committee, Graduate representative (2017-2021)