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Research Interests

• Early modern British history
• Popular politics and power
• Migration and immigration in the early modern world
• Creation of national identities
• Early modern urban spaces
• Social and institutional networks
• Microeconomics and social economic history
• Early modern religion

Recent Publications

• A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).

Current Projects

• ““Religious Cultures,” in The New Cambridge History of Britain, Volume III: 1500-1750, Susan Amussen and Paul Monod, eds.. Cambridge University Press (under contract).
• “Ordering the Strangers: European Immigration in Early Modern England” (in progress).

Courses Taught

• Western Civ to 1648 (HY 101)
• Reformation Europe (HY 444)
• England under the Tudors (HY 490)
• England under the Stuarts (HY 491)
• History of London (HY 497)
• Graduate Readings in Early Modern European History (HY 631)
• Graduate Historiography and Methods (HY 665)

Awards and Honors

• 2019/22, Durham University Research Visiting Fellowship (postponed until 2022)
• 2018, College Academy for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant (UA)
• 2018, Folger Library, Grant-in-aid, London Bills of Mortality Symposium
• 2017, Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research (Oxford)
• 2017, UK Association of Heritage Interpretation Overall Award for Excellence in Interpretation (Historical Expert, National Trust)
• 2016, Keble College Small Research Grant, British Immigration Project (Oxford)
• 2014, Theron Rockwell Field Prize (Yale)
• 2014, US Department of Education Title VI Grant (Grantwriter, Yale)

Books:

• A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2023)

Articles and Book Chapters:

• “Ordering the Strangers: European Immigration in Early Modern England” (in progress) “Religious Cultures,” in The New Cambridge History of Britain, Volume III: 1500-1750, Susan Amussen and Paul Monod, eds. Cambridge University Press (under contract).
• with Matthew Tyler-Jones and Jeanice Brooks, “A Soundscape Case Study: Pre-Reformation Lady Mass at the Vyne, Basingstoke.”  Curator: the Museum Journal (July 2019)
• ‘Pensioners, Prisoners, and Pupils: Tudor Charity at Corpus Christi College,’ in Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College Oxford in Context, 1450-1600,  John Watts, ed. Oxford University Press (July 2019)
• “The Pious Politics of Godly Women in Post-Reformation England,” in Germany and Britain in the Reformation: Comparison, Transfer, and Entanglements, ed. Frank-Lothar Kroll (August 2018).
• “Ecclesiastical Improvements, Lay Impropriations, and the Building of a Post-Reformation Church in England, 1560-1600.” The Historical Journal (March 2015)