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About

I'm a PhD student at Durham University specialising in early modern crises in north-east England, utilising demography and micro-history case studies.

 

I'm also interested in crises more broadly, from the fall of Rome to our own experiences of the ongoing global pandemic.

Work
'Pandemic times: developing methods and producing friendship', NINE DTP Summer Conference panel presentation (6th July 2021)
‘Dancing with Death: Life in Early Modern Saint Oswald’s Parish’, Crossing Boundaries Conference (Durham). Online presentation, August 2020
'The Seventeeth Century General Crisis in Regional Context', Durham-Munster Workshop (November 2021)
 

journal articles

Co-authored journal article on student experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic

Rutter et al., ‘It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine… Because Everything is F****d Anyway’: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises’, International Journal of Qualitative Methods (2021).

Most Recent Talk:
Surviving Mortality Crises in North East England during the reign of Elizabeth I

Seminar presentation at Durham Castle Sunday Seminars, November 2021

Previous Presentations

Blog Posts

‘Honorius and His Chickens: Re-Evaluating the Life of a Child-Emperor’, Durham Castle Sunday Seminar (Durham). In-person seminar, March 2020.
'Approaching Global Crisis through a Local Lens', Midwest World History Association Conference (September 2021)
 
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