I am a DPhil student in American history, researching constitutional experimentation during the Secession Crisis, co-supervised by Adam Smith and Grace Mallon. I am interested in how this era of uncertainty led diverse groups of Americans to imagine and reimagine political order on the North American continent and how these visions reveal the differing meanings of American identities and the constitution in political life.Â
I studied both my undergraduate and MSt degrees at Oxford, writing dissertations on American political history in the late Antebellum era. For my BA, I studied pro-Southern Doughface Democrats in the Northern states, while my Masters' Thesis research was an analysis of anti-slavery politics in the Whig Party during the 1848 Election.
