PhD Candidate
Early Modern History
Advisor: Ethan Shagan
Education
M.A.R., Religion (Liturgical Studies), Yale Divinity School
Certificate, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Certificate, Reformed Studies
M.A., History, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests
Primary Geographic Area
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England
Secondary Geographic Areas
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Germany
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Swiss Confederation
Additional Training
Reformation and Early Modern History
Institut d'histoire de la Réformation
Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
"Thinking High and Low: Elites, Experts, and the Masses in the Early Reformation" summer course
June 2026
Institut für Schweizerische Reformationgeschichte
Universität Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland)
500 Jahre Prophezey Theologisches summer course
June 2025 [partial attendance as an observer]
Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies
(Wittenberg, Germany)
Student Fellow, "The German and English Reformations" summer course
July - August 2024
Central European University
(Vienna, Austria)
Berkeley - London - Berlin - Istanbul - Freiburg - Vienna Early Modern History workshop
August 2022
Paleography, Manuscripts, Books, and Digital Humanities
California Rare Book School
"Born Digital/Digital Collections" summer course
August 2026
Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium)
Digital Humanities Summer School
"Computer-assisted genetic editing: From medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents"
June-July 2026
London Rare Books School (London, UK)
"The Book Historian's Digital Toolkit" summer course
June 2026
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Beta tester, Leo handwritten text recognition model
Summer-Fall 2025
Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium)
"Print Culture in 16th Century Europe" summer course
July 2017
Columbia University (New York City, USA)
Early Modern Dutch Language and Paleography summer course
June 2017
Huntington Library (San Marino, California, USA)
Tudor-Stuart English Paleography Intensive (secretary and italic hands)
Mellon Summer Institute in Vernacular Paleography
July 2016
University College, London (London, UK)
Virtual course in Early Modern Dutch Language and Paleography
May - December 2016
Publications
"The Reformation and Time" Routledge Resources Online - The Renaissance World, forthcoming, Spring 2027 [invited].
"A Clock of Capitalism? The Afterlife of Monastic Time in Reformation Geneva" in Melanie C. Ross, ed., On Earth as in Heaven? Liturgy, Materiality, and Economics (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2023), 265-286.
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards (selected)
2026 California Rare Book School scholarship
2026 Institute of English Studies grant
2025 NACBS Folger Fellow, awarded by North Am. Conference on British Studies and Folger Shakespeare Library
2025 Short-term Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
2025 Reformationsgeschichtliche Forschungsbibliothek Research Fellowship, Wittenberg, Germany
2025 Max Kade Foundation Award
2025 John L. Simpson ABD Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2024 John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2022 Liturgical Studies Prize, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
2021 Hugh Porter Award, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
2017 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Research and Travel Grant
2017 Nederlandse Taalunie Summer Fellowship, Columbia University
2017 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Professional Development Grant
2017 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Professional Development Grant
2016 Mellon Summer Institute in Vernacular Paleography Fellowship, Huntington Library
2016 Research Development Grant, Notre Dame Arts and Letters Advisory Council
2016 'Striving for Excellence in Teaching' Certificate, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning
2014 Blaine T. Browne Student Paper Award, Florida Conference of Historians
Conference Activity (selected)
Respondent, "Sebastian Franck and a Radical Paul" by Prof. Barbara Pitkin, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, January 2026.
"Calvinist Astrologers? Almanacs, Astrology, and Popular Print in Early Modern England," Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Stanford, CA, March 2025.
Graduate assistant conference organizer, "Braudel's La Méditerranée: Paradigms and Possibilities after 75 Years," hosted by Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, UC Berkeley and the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, November 2024.
"Participating in Providence: Time and the Clock of Nature in Reformation England" American Society of Church History, January 2024, San Fransisco, CA. Also presented at the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, October 2023.
"Ora et Labora: Artisans, Reformers, and the Religious Economy of Time in Early Modern Geneva" Yale Institute of Sacred Music conference, "On Earth as in Heaven? Liturgy, Materiality, Economics" June 2023, New Haven, CT.
"Signs of the Times: The Soundscape and Iconography of Time in Reformation Europe" Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2022, Minneapolis, MN.
"Cathedral Music in Comparative Context: A Case Study of Two Seventeenth-Century Psalm Settings" Yale Institute of Sacred Music Colloquium, March 2022, New Haven, CT.
"Anamnesis and Adapted Memory: Time, Space, Art, and Materiality in the Reformed Liturgical Year," Societas Liturgica international conference, July 2021 (virtual).
Session Moderator, "The Sabbath Rest in Judaism: Time, Community, and Identity" at Yale Institute of Sacred Music conference, "Keeping the Sabbath from Antiquity to Modernity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Time, Rest, and Cosmos," March 2021 (virtual).
“Fish, Cloth, and Gold: The Reformation and Material Culture in Early Modern London and Antwerp,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, October 2017, Milwaukee, WI. Also presented at the American Society of Church History, January 2018, Washington DC.
“Skipping Lent in Tudor England: Popular Resistance to Lent in the English Reformation” American Society of Church History and American Historical Association, January 2017, Denver, CO. Also presented at the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference, January 2017, Chicago, IL and the Notre Dame Early Modern Graduate Research Symposium, Notre Dame, IN, March 2017.
Session Organizer: “Popular Ritual and Festivity in Reformation and Post-Reformation Britain,” American Society of Church History and American Historical Association, January 2017, Denver, CO.
“Popular Religion in the English and Italian Reformations,” American Society of Church History, April 2016, Edmonton AB. (accepted but did not attend)
“Reforming Lent: Evangelical Lenten Sermons in the Edwardian Reformation,” Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference, January 2016, Chicago, IL; presented also at the University of Notre Dame History Graduate Student Conference, April 2016, Notre Dame, IN.
“ ‘What Small Thing is it that Remains to Keep Us Apart?’: New England Congregational Thought on the Need for Continued Parish Reform in England, 1640-1660,” Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, February 2015, Statesboro, GA.
"The Book of Common Prayer and the American Revolution" Florida Conference of Historians, February 2015, Lakeland, FL.
“Creating a Holy Community: The Genevan Consistory and Matrimonial Law, 1546-1557,” Florida Conference of Historians, January 2014, St. Augustine, FL.
Research and Editorial Assistantships
- Research assistant to Dr. Bryan Spinks, Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies, Yale Institute of Sacred Music (2021 2022)
- Research assistant, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University (2021)
- Research assistant to Dr. Susannah Monta, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of English, University of Notre Dame (2019 - 2022)
- Editorial Assistant, Archiv für Reformationgeschichte (2017 2018)
Teaching Experience
- Reader, Early Modern Spain, 1450-1700, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2025 (Dr. Thomas Dandelet)
- Graduate Student Instructor, U.S. History from Settlement to Civil War, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2024 (Dr. Brian DeLay)
- Graduate Student Instructor, U.S. History from Civil War to Present, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2024 (Dr. Mark Brilliant)
- Graduate Student Instructor, European History from the Renaissance to the Present, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2023 (Dr. Jonathan Sheehan)
- Instructor, Moreau First Year Experience course, Department of First Year Studies, University of Notre Dame (2019-2020)
- Teaching assistant, Western Civilization since 1500, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2018 (Dr. Alexander Martin)
- Teaching assistant, Christianity, Commerce, and Consumerism: The Last 1,000 Years, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2017 (Dr. Brad Gregory)
- Teaching assistant, Western Civilization: Antiquity to 1500, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2016 (Dr. Daniel Hobbins)
Academic Employment
Graduate Spaces Coordinator (2023-2025)
History Department, UC Berkeley
Graduate assistant to Liturgical Studies faculty director (2021-2022)
Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music
National Fellowships and Undergraduate Research Advisor (2018-2022)
Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement
University of Notre Dame
Professional Development Assistant (Summer 2018)
The Graduate School
University of Notre Dame
