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I am a historian of medieval culture, spirituality, and politics. My dissertation focuses on textual constructions of fifteenth-century kingship fashioned through the use and reception of these texts within communally ritualized contexts. Some of my other projects examine the functionality of devotional texts and mnemonics, instances of political prophecy and usurpation, and the theatricality of public spectacles of violence. I also enjoy studying constructs and receptions of selfhood, identity, and the other. Please click here for more information about, and samples of, my work.

I am currently in my fourth year in Duke University’s History PhD Program. This semester, I continue to serve in my capacities as the Graduate Assistant Course Scheduler for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Graduate Coordinator for the FHI’s Manuscript Migration Lab, and as a Graduate Team Coordinator for Duke’s interdisciplinary program, Bass Connections.

I hold BAs in History and Communications from Fordham College at Lincoln Center, an MA in European History from Southern Connecticut State University, and an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Columbia University.