I am a doctoral candidate in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, where I am supervised by Dr Derek Patrick and Prof Guy Rowlands. My PhD research examines the education and upbringing of Jacobite children from 1689 to 1780, exploring how familial and pedagogical structures shaped the transmission of Jacobite ideology across generations in the political world of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. By analyzing primary sources such as correspondence, diaries, and educational treatises, I investigate the role of children and the family unit in sustaining Jacobitism amid exile, rebellion, and cultural suppression, with a particular emphasis on how Hanoverian reforms sought to "correct" Jacobite youth.

This work builds on my MLitt in Early Modern and Reformation History at St Andrews (2022–2023), which analyzed the evolution of female participation in the Jacobite movement from 1689 to 1746. My undergraduate studies culminated in a BA in History (summa cum laude) from Hillsdale College (2016–2020). I am the recipient of the 2025 Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, supporting my doctoral pursuits.

My publications include a forthcoming chapter on clerical fatherhood in seventeenth-century England in Clerical Lives in England and Wales, c. 1600–1800 (Manchester University Press, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies series, 2026), and co-editing A Disputation on Holy Scripture by William Whitaker (Prolego Press, 2025). I have presented at conferences such as the 2025 SSAH Art & Text Conference and the Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (2025, University of Birmingham), and I have delivered invited talks on Jacobite pedagogy and propaganda.

My broader interests encompass the history of family, religion, and education in early modern Britain, as well as the interplay of propaganda and identity in Jacobite culture.