Social and cultural historian of Late Antiquity, and the early Middle Ages. Research fellow on Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World (4th-6th c.)  (PIs Professor Carlos Machado and Professor Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner).

My PhD thesis studied how relationships were described on tombstones from IV-VII century Gaul, and how far the end of the Roman empire impacted family, gender and social values. A book is under contract, and I am also involved in a collaborative project investigating the interaction between different gendered narrative strategies in Merovingian literature. 

My work since has focused on the mechanics by which relationships were negotiated at the end of the Roman world. My work for the Land & Loyalty project investigates how changing political processes of land distribution at the end of the Roman Empire shaped and were shaped by the disparate family and gender structures found across the late Roman world. In addition, I am currently engaged in collaborative projects that explore i) dissolving family ties in the late antique and early-medieval period, and ii) how and why different late antique societies understood the relationship between sex and education so differently, and how these ideas impacted the treatment of humans and their bodies.