Contact Information
309 Gregory Hall
810 S Wright St.
M/C 466
Champaign, IL 61820
Office Hours
Research Interests
The Global Middle Ages
Slavery and captivity in the Medieval North Atlantic
Documentary, print culture, material culture
Digital humanities
Education
M.A. in History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, December 2019.
B.A. in History and English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2018.
Grants
The Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship, Republic of Iceland, 2021-2022.
A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer 2021.
U.S. Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Year, Russian), August 2020-May 2021.
History Department Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020.
U.S. Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Year, Russian), August 2019-May 2020.
U.S. Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Summer, Russian), May 2017-August 2017.
Awards and Honors
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students: Fall 2022.
Joseph Ward Swain Publication Prize, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022.
Yaro Skalnik Prize for the Best Graduate Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021.
Laurence M. Larson Scholarship for Studies in Medieval or English History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021.
Frederick S. Rodkey Memorial Prize for Most Promising Graduate Student in Russian History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020.
James Madison Award for Excellence in Historical Scholarship, James Madison University, April 2019.
Courses Taught
HIST/MDVL 247 - Instructor, Spring 2023
HIST/PSYC 236 - TA, Fall 2022
Additional Campus Affiliations
Program in Medieval Studies
Highlighted Publications
“Ok lá þar at óvilja hennar: A Reconsideration of Sexual Violence in the Old Norse World.” Journal of Family History 48, no. 1 (January 2023): 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990211053220.
“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050.” History Compass 19, issue 5 (May 2021): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12657.
“‘Я Тоже:’ The Rape of Katerina Stepanova and John Paul Jones’s Russian Legacy.” Past Tense: Graduate Review of History 7, issue 1 (Spring 2019): 36-57.
“Russia's Empress-Navigator: Transforming Modes of Monarchy during the Reign of Anna Ivanovna, 1730-40,” Madison Historical Review 16, article 3 (Spring 2019).