• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Liverpool

As an eighteenth-century social and cultural historian, my research explores the connections between sociability, political culture, embodiment, and dance. I am particularly interested in the researching the tangled histories of British assembly rooms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, drawing on this institution to broaden understandings of politics, performance, space, and place.

My doctoral thesis, 'Politics and Pirouettes: the intersection of politics and social dance in late Georgian Britain' (Queen Mary University of London, 2022), explored the symbiotic relationship between dance and political cultures from 1760 to 1832. It examined the relationship between the body, display, and dance within the context of court, party, electoral, local, and gender politics.

Bodily communication, identity, and the physical body informed and reflected wider cultural beliefs and practices in the eighteenth century, ultimately uncovering the place of culture in understanding politics and power. My first monograph, Dancing the Body Politic in Georgian England, based on this research is currently in preparation.

I have held fellowships at the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Huntington Library in California, and the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University where I was able to consult their rich archives of eighteenth-century diaries, correspondence, prints, and material culture, enhancing research for my book projects and articles (see the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies and The London Journal).

• –present British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Liverpool

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