Personal Statement
I am primarily a social historian at the University of Liverpool, working on the histories of British assembly rooms in the 18th and 19th centuries. My research examines themes of sociability, embodiment, place and space, performance, and politics in the long eighteenth century. I began my post as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in October 2024 after completing my PhD at Queen Mary University of London (2022), where my thesis explored intersections between Georgian political culture and social dance from 1760 to 1832. I previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) project at Newcastle University and University of Liverpool (2022-2023).

I am currently working on my first monograph on the connections between dance and politics in the late eighteenth centuriy. This work examines a wide range of textual sources in an effort to construct a comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of the body and the role of dance in political culture.

Research Interests:
- Sociability
- Space, Place, and Architecture
- Gender, Bodies, and Embodiment
- Political Culture
- Dance, Performance, and Practice

Education
- PhD in History, Queen Mary University of London
- MSt in British and European History, 1500-present, University of Oxford
- BA (Hons) in History, University of Toronto

Research Overview
My monograph and digital history project, 'Assembled, Disassembled, Reassembled: Britain’s Assembly Rooms, 1660-1880', traces the inception, zenith, and collapse of British assembly rooms between 1660 and 1880, recovering the history of an institution was formative to creating a British cultural model, and political identity, of civic humanism. Civic humanism centred participatory citizenship in eighteenth-century urban, political, and economic development. As spaces for dance, dalliance, and display, assembly rooms are the architectural eye candy to cinematic depictions of Georgian sociability today. Historically, they dominated social life yet, despite 935 surviving presently, we know surprisingly little about their origins, development, and proliferation. This project combines detailed and diverse primary source research with innovative digital humanities methodologies to quantitatively map Britain’s assembly rooms and trace the trajectories, spread, architectural forms, and cultural functions. It also qualitatively analyses assembly rooms as multidimensional, multipurpose spaces that were significant to the broader democratisation of British leisure culture.