PhD Candidate
Research Interests
- Frontier regions of Late Antiquity
- Barbarian kingdoms
- Cultural exchange and identity
- Material culture
- Numismatics
- Materiality of manuscripts
Education
BA in History - Missouri State University
MA in History - Southeastern Louisiana University
Grants
- FLAS Fellowship - Hungarian (2021-2022)
- Summer Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant (2023)
- ABD Fellowship (2023-2024)
Awards and Honors
- Lawrence M. Larson Scholarship for Studies in Medieval or English History (2022)
- Joseph Ward Swain Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper (2023)
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (2022, 2023)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Medieval Studies Program
EU Center
Senate Library Committee
Recent Publications
“The Roman Republican System and Representative Government,” in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Representation, publication forthcoming.
“The History of the Gepids: Forgotten or Misplaced?” Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 19, no. 1 (2023): 27-54.