About
I study the art, architecture, and archaeology of late ancient and early medieval Europe, with a particular interest in social histories of objects and buildings in the post-Roman world.
My current book project, entitled The Early Medieval Palace: Architectures of Authority, 300–800 CE considers the role of architecture in the social and political transformations of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Drawing on critical spatial and archaeological theory, this study argues that palaces were not just backdrops for, or symbols of, royal power, but rather discursive spaces in which political authority was defined, negotiated, and ultimately enacted.
My research interests include the history of medieval art broadly construed (including its historiography); social and anthropological theory, and especially concepts of landscape, space, and materiality; urban studies and the archaeology of cities in Late Antiquity; and group identity and community in the Early Middle Ages. Education
PhD in Medieval Studies (Medieval Art), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2021)
MA in Medieval Studies, University of York, York, UK (2013)
BA (Hons.) History, Durham University, Durham, UK (2012) Publications
“Defining Difference or Connecting Spaces? Similarity and Meaning in the Arian Baptistery, Ravenna.” In Place and Space in the Medieval World, edited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, and Heidi Stoner. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2018. Memberships
College Art Association
Medieval Academy of America
International Center of Medieval Art
Italian Art Society
