About
I am a historian of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, specialising in the intersections of culture, ethics, and human–animal relations. My doctoral research, "Creeds of Kinship: An Animal–Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt" (Loughborough University, submission October 2025), recovers the biographies and ideas of two late-Victorian vegetarians and their intellectual circles. Through a method that blends animal-human biography and intellectual history, my work examines how encounters with non-human animals shaped their ethical commitments, political activism, and philosophical thought. In doing so, I seek to restore animals to the historical record as active participants in what I term "veg-history", something I've written more about here.
My first peer-reviewed article, “Animal Ethics and Vivisection in the Philosophy of Anna Kingsford,” is forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Ideas. I also have an introductory essay on Kingsford appearing in an edited collection. Following my PhD, I intend to develop my dissertation into a monograph and to further investigate Kingsford’s philosophical writings through a series of postdoctoral projects, including an edited collection of her works.
Research and Further Interests
My research sits at the intersection of animal studies, the environmental humanities, and Victorian intellectual history. Methodologically, I draw on phenomenology to explore historical intersubjectivity, and on the history of emotions to capture the affective dimensions of past lives. This approach allows me to write history that is both analytically rigorous and narratively engaging—attentive to the lived experience of historical actors while inviting the reader into their emotional and intellectual worlds.
Academic Background
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PhD in History, Loughborough University (submission expected October 2025) — Creeds of Kinship: An Animal–Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt
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MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge (2021) — research on Bertrand Russell’s liberal and democratic theory
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BA in History and Politics (First Class Honours), Loughborough University (2020) — dissertation on Hermann Hesse’s patriotic pacifism during the First World War and interwar period