I am a historian of nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Britain with a PhD from Northwestern University. My dissertation looked at wealthy business families of the British Atlantic port cities of Liverpool and Glasgow between 1870 and 1930.
I work in Research & Development at the Open Research Group of academic publisher Springer Nature.
Education
September 2010-September 2017: History PhD at Northwestern University, IL.
September 2009-August 2010: History PhD student at Brown University, RI. I transferred to Northwestern, and was awarded an MA by Brown.
September 2006-June 2009: History BA at Oxford University, UK.
Presentations
May 5 2016: "Around the world in 400 days: Family, business and travel in the 1890s." University of Hong Kong Spring History Symposium, Hong Kong.
April 9 2016: "Businessmen at War: Business Logic in the Trenches.” University of Birmingham-University of Illinois BRIDGE Workshop, Chicago.
May 10 2015: "The Leisured Lives of Working Men: Wealthy Men of Glasgow and Liverpool 1870-1930.” Graduate Student Conference on Histories of Leisure, Center for Historical Studies (CCHS), Northwestern University.
September 11 2014: "Liverpool’s Elites at Home and Abroad 1870-1930.” Port City Lives Conference on Vectors (Port Cities as Gateways, Channels and Conduits), Conference for Port & Maritime History, Liverpool.
September 21 2013: “Bristol’s Elite c.1900 (or, Charity covers a lot of larks).” Conference on Imperial City: Bristol in the World, University of the West of England Regional History Centre, M Shed, Bristol.
May 10 2013: “The Provincial Port City: Bristol’s Elite c.1900.” Graduate Student Conference on Oceans of History, Center for Historical Studies (CCHS), Northwestern University.
April 1 2011: “The English Past through Nineteenth-Century Catholic Eyes: Obstacles and Possibilities.” Graduate Student Conference on Religious Identity and Political Conflict, Center for Historical Studies (CCHS), Northwestern University.