Education:

PhD Candidate in History, Boston College
MA in History, Central Michigan University, 2010
BA with Honours in History, University of Strathclyde, 2009

Research Interests:

I am a student of the Atlantic World in the early modern period, circa 1600-1815. By this, I mean the imperial projects, networks, commercial routes, migration patterns and political institutions that unite the European, African and American peoples, colonies and states into a wider transatlantic network of influence and identity. Within this diverse field, I have particular interests in colonial America, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Britain and Dutch transatlantic commerce and warfare.

My current research project examines the experience of Scottish religious and economic migrants in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, with reference to the politics underpinning their colonial projects and their conception of, and existence within, a wider Protestant Atlantic Empire.

Fellowships and Awards

• Graduate Fellow, Clough Center For Constitutional Democracy
• Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy Travel Grant, 2012
• University Fellowship, Boston College

Conference Presentations:

• "‘So great a concern’: Scotland, the Darién Expedition and the European Balance of Power", The British Scholar Society’s “Britain and the World” Conference, University of Edinburgh, June 23, 2012
• "Prelacy or Presbytery? Religion and Education in the Early Modern British Kingdoms", Biennial Boston College Conference on the History of Religion: “History’s Fourth Lens? Race, Class, Gender -- and Religion”, March 31, 2012
• “So Great a Concern: Scotland, the Darien Expedition and the European Balance of Power”, Graduate Student Conference on European History, University of Michigan, March 20, 2010
• “Re-Evaluating Revolutionary Radicalism: The Loyalists in American Historical Consciousness”, 3rd Annual Central Michigan University History Conference, April 16, 2010
• “So Great a Concern: Scotland, the Darien Expedition and the European Balance of Power”, 6th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference, April 24, 2010