RESEARCH INTERESTS

Early modern Britain and its empire; history of Christianity; religion and empire; pilgrimage studies

BIOGRAPHY

I am a PhD student in the History Department and a Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow here at UChicago. I study the religious history of early modern England and its empire. I became interested in this period initially because of my undergraduate work in pilgrimage studies. In my research I explore how global colonization shaped English Christian ideology. Prior to my time at UChicago, I earned a BA in History from Stanford University and spent my free time backpacking over 3000 miles along medieval pilgrimage paths through Europe. Most recently, I walked from Canterbury to Rome along the route taken by Archbishop Sigeric in the year 990.