About

I am a researcher at Queen’s University, Belfast. I am a project scholar at Livingstone Online http://www.livingstoneonline.org/. I previously worked on the David Livingstone Multi-Spectral digital imaging project http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/. My work draws meaning from the Livingstone digital archive, the historiography of the archive, its format, and the literary geopolitics of Livingstone’s words.
My research focuses on 19th century European exploration in Africa and digital cultural creation and curation. I study transnational influences in disparate cultures in the long nineteenth century: from David Livingstone’s phonetic transcriptions of indigenous central and southern African languages to H. Rider Haggard’s mythologizing of Zulu history, how cultures interacted with each other and how that can be traced within the archive. I also look at areas of interaction: I am interested in what is happening in the space between technical (or digital) archives and the actual physical archive. I have previously worked as both an archivist and a librarian.