After an MA at Edinburgh and MPhil at Cambridge, I received my doctorate from Edinburgh in 2017. I took up research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the University of Oxford, and the University of Galway, and subsequently taught at the Universities of Newcastle and Liverpool.

I work on the political, intellectual and environmental histories of Britain, Ireland, and the United States across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My first book, Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War (Cambridge, 2023), looked at how agrarian radicalism shaped late Victorian liberal politics.

My current projects include a co-authored volume on the social and economic histories of British and Irish woodland landscapes since 1700, forthcoming with Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. My next monograph project is a history of boycotting and its impact on ideas of democracy across the north Atlantic in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Transnational and diasporic Irish history
• Agrarian and labour politics in the nineteenth century North Atlantic
• Popular protest and non-violent political activism
• Histories of radicalism and liberalism
• The environmental history of political ideas

Teaching

I teach courses in modern Irish history and the history of political thought.

Selected publications

'Aesthetics, access, and economics: woodland management and landscape transformation on the Buccleuch Estates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’, Scottish Historical Review 104, no. 265, (2025): 302-322

‘A Free Market of Morals: Boycotting, Liberalism and Property’, Global Perspectives 5, no. 1, (2024): 116-152.

Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

‘The right to life, the right to nature, and the impact of Irish land on political thought in the 1880s’ The Historical Journal 66, no. 3, (2023): 573-592.

‘Religion and Political Thought in Irish History’, History of European Ideas 46, no. 7 (2020): 934-950.

‘“The surging tide of pauper democracy”: Irish boycotting and Anglo-American liberalism’, Radical History Review 134 (2019): 29-57.