I am currently studying at St. John's College, Cambridge for my PhD in History. My research, funded by the AHRC and supervised by Ulinka Rublack, explores the culture and making of clothing in early modern London (c.1560-1660). I work with extant objects as well as archival, visual and literary sources and have been reconstructing tailoring, pattern drafting, leather working, starching and seamstress practices. I am particularly interested in the interrelationship between material and literary culture with regards to clothing in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, reconstruction, materiality, craft, consumption, sumptuary law, and the history of emotions.

For a brief overview of my research and reconstruction, see my guest blog for Worn Through

I also run the tumblr for Ulinka Rublack's reconstruction project The First Book of Fashion

From January - May 2016, I am a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, sponsored by Professor Pamela Smith and the Center for Science and Society. I am particularly interested in reconstruction as a methodology for learning about craft practices, materials, and tacit knowledge.

I am also a Teaching Assistant for the Survey of Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center, Spring Term 2016.

For more, some of my publications, and to connect with me - see
Academia.edu Profile