About

I am a historian of Early Modern Britain and Europe, specializing in the gender history, the history of medicine and the history of the family.

Starting in June 2020, I will be a Gerda Henkel Scholar, working on a project entitled “Sisterhood in Early Modern England”. The project will culminate in a book exploring the relationships between adult married sisters in the seventeenth century and the roles they played in creating and maintaining kinship networks.

In 2017, I published Infertility in Early Modern England (Palgrave-MacMillan). The book explores infertility and fertility problems not only as medical conditions but as social and cultural problems. In doing so, it highlights the specific ways in which medicine, religion, and the gendered social order interacted around problems of fertility and reproduction.

I earned my PhD in History from Brown University in 2012, after which I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, first in the department of History and then in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences.