My first book project, based on my doctoral dissertation, uses a variety of sources and methods from the humanities and natural sciences to investigate the relationship between seasons and gender in the communities and agroecosystems in the British Northern Atlantic during the climatic upheavals of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. It uncovers quotidian histories of seasonal variability and disruption and asks what these histories might mean in the context of the current climate crisis by examining the various, connected peoples and ecologies of the British Northern Atlantic and their experiences of early modern climate change. My focus on on-the-ground change and adaptation, represented through local case studies in the Northern Atlantic world, goes beyond studies of agricultural markets and prices to understand how rural communities lived and worked with climate change before 1800.

I publish both individually and collaboratively in peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and environmental sciences. I am currently working on publications on the role of intellectual culture eighteenth-century British agriculture, the role of the family in climate responses in Orkney, and gender and climate in the District of Maine. You can find a full list of publications on my ORCID page.

Within my main foci of environmental history, gender history, and climate history history, I am particularly interested in agriculture and rural work; coastal and island communities; the Northern Atlantic; non-elite expertise; multidisciplinary methods; local history; quotidian sciences and ways of knowing; masculinity and environmental change; women and the climate crisis.

I am also available for book and manuscript reviews, panel involvement, speaking engagements, and consultancy work. Please feel free to be in touch.

I work with the team at Environmental History Now as their outreach coordinator, expanding the reach and accessibility of the platform’s mission to showcase the environmental-related work and expertise of graduate students and early career scholars who identify as women, trans and/or non binary people. I founded and co-produce EHN’s podcast, Ecotones Now, and also write their newsletter.

I designed and help maintain an interactive map representing local climate change stories on ClimateTippingPoints.com.