About
Rachel Singer studies the environmental and gender history of post-imperial Britain and Merovingian Gaul. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, combining rigorous textual criticism with paleoscientific data. She has published on the Black Death in North Africa and on the 589-90 Sainte-Croix nuns’ rebellion. Her current projects focus on first-pandemic plague in Britain, disaster in Gildas’ De excidio Britonum, and conquest/colonialism in medieval Wales. Education
PhD Student – Environmental History, Georgetown University
MPhil – Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
