Personal statement

I joined SIGS as a Teaching Fellow in Genealogical Studies in autumn 2026. I received my PhD from the University of Edinburgh. I also have an MA in European History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a first degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining SIGS, I was Assistant Professor of Early European History at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. Prior to that, I was a visiting assistant professor at the College of Charleston and a one-year lecturer of history and heritage at the University of Lincoln. I also taught at the University of Edinburgh while completing my PhD. I have published articles in Medieval Prosopography, Medieval People, and Histories of People and Place. My first book, The Moneyers of England, 973–1086: Labour Organisation in Late Anglo-Saxon and Early Anglo-Norman English Mints (Oxford: BAR British Series), was published in September 2019.

I am a cultural and social historian focusing on potential family structures within organised labour in the medieval period. My research investigates the socio-economic development of Early Medieval Europe, most specifically examining English economic structures, primarily through the lens of name studies and material culture. My other interests include cultural exchange, the Vikings, numismatics, disease and death in the pre-modern world, medievalism, and historical linguistics. I use prosopography and big data analysis extensively in my research.