I am a graduate student of Early Modern European History. The following link will take you to my UCSC History Dept Profile.

I am a cultural historian with interests in religion in  history, the history of gender, women’s history, and art and performance history. My dissertation research will be on broadside and broadside ballads printed in England and Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries.

My minor field is Jewish World History, which is an attempt to think through Philip D. Curtin’s work on cross-cultural trade, but from a cultural and social historical perspective.  The two larger World History projects that I have worked on/am currently working on are my website on the Beaver Hat in World History, and a summer school 2008 class in collaboration with Katie Simonton, “World History Through Food.”

Note: The Beaver Hat in World History, “Fashionable Felted Fur,” has moved! You can find it here.

Plan for 2008-2009:

I will be in Santa Cruz for the 2008-9 academic year. My plan is to continue to feed myself by TAing for the following classes:

Fall ‘08 HIS-180A   English History: 1485-1689  with Prof. Buchanan Sharp

Winter ‘09 HIS-180BEnglish History: 1689-1990  with Prof. Bruce Thompson

Spring ’09 HIS-80W   The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry   with Prof. Peter Kenez

...and to continue to research for my dissertation. Presently, the goal is to conduct secondary and accessible primary research from my home base in Santa Cruz  and then travel to my archives in the UK during summer of 2009.

In the spare time I carve out for myself I take ballet and jazz classes at UCSC, cook, run, and knit.