I am a historian of modern Britain specialising in intellectual history and animal-human history.

My research recovers the lives and ideas of figures whose contributions have been marginalised within mainstream historical accounts, attending closely to the non-human worlds they inhabited and the encounters that shaped their thinking. My doctoral thesis, completed at Loughborough University, develops an original animal-human biographical method -- a framework that integrates non-human animals as active participants in intellectual history -- through sustained engagement with the Victorian reformers Anna Kingsford (1846-1888) and Henry Salt (1851-1939). Drawing on animal-human, emotional, and more-than-human histories, I advance what I call a relational intellectual history: an approach that takes seriously the multispecies contexts in which ideas are formed. I am currently revising this work into a monograph.

I teach across modern British and European history, political theory, and politics and government.​