I am a historian of slavery, empire and Indigenous peoples in the United States. I completed my PhD at the University of Hull in 2019, and before joining York St. John in 2026, I lectured at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of York, the University of Cambridge and King's College London.
Beyond my research interests, I am very interested in building connections between history school teachers and university lecturers, in an effort to understand shared challenges. To this end, I co-organised the 'Teaching History Now' conference at the University of Cambridge in May 2025, and organised the annual History Teacher's Network conference at King's College London in 2026.
I currently teach on the History, American Studies and War Studies programmes, teaching a range of undergraduate modules that are primarily concerned with American history.
My PhD research, which I am currently converting into a book, examines the role of race and U.S. expansion in the community formation of the Florida Seminoles in the early nineteenth century. I am now turning my focus to my next project, which is concerned with the depiction of Indigenous peoples in the rhetoric of American abolitionists.
