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
Current Projects
A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish (forthcoming, McGill-Queens University Press).
““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, 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)
Selected Publications
Books:
A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish (forthcoming, McGill-Queens University Press, expected publication winter 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)
