I am originally from Llanelli in the UK and my first degree was in Modern History from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. I then crossed the Atlantic to get a PhD from the College of William and Mary. The Tidewater experience got to me and I became fascinated with developing new approaches to understanding Chesapeake plantation society and deconstructing its corrosive mythologies.
After a brief period teaching at the University of Glasgow, I came to Dartmouth in 2013. I am privileged to teach immensely talented undergraduates in courses about early America. I also enjoy working alongside student research assistants on my new plantation-naming project. Outside of the classroom, I am also a member of the Dartmouth working groups on Comparative Slavery Studies and International History.
When I am not researching and teaching, I enjoy engaging in planting of a very different sort, as I struggle to coax a garden to grow in the rocky soil of northern New England.