CV
last updated February 2025
Work Experience
Cataloger, MacManus Rare Books, Bryn Mawr, PA, January 2024 – present
Special projects assistant, Medieval Academy of America, Boston, MA, June 2023 – February 2025
Program assistant, Jewish Women’s Archive, Boston, MA, August 2022 – December 2023
Archives and records management assistant, Harvard Business School Special Collections, Boston, MA, November 2022 – June 2023
Archives intern, Emerson College Archives and Special Collections, Boston, MA, Autumn 2022
Curatorial assistant, Harvard Theatre Collection, Cambridge, MA, February 2018 – May 2021
Editorial intern, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Washington, DC, Summer 2020
Collections intern, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, Summer 2019
Research assistant to Margot Fassler, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2019–20 (Project: Play and Counterplay: Dramatic Modes of Action in and alongside the Medieval Liturgy)
Research assistant to Anna Wilson, Department of English, Harvard University, Autumn 2019 (Project: The Reader X Fanfiction Project)
Research assistant to Katie Bugyis, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2018–19 (Project: Liturgy Matters: Benedictine Women’s Communities in Medieval England)
Registrar’s intern, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, Summer 2018
Education
M. S., Library Science, Simmons University, January 2024
Concentration: Archival Management
Capstone independent study: Conditions Governing Access and Use: Abortion History in the Archives
M. St., Medieval Studies, University of Oxford, June 2022
Dissertation: Iubente domina abbatissa: Gendered Authority in the Barking Abbey Ordinal (Oxford, University College MS 169)
A. B., summa cum laude, History and Literature, Harvard University, May 2021
Thesis: Mater matris domini: Holy Motherhood and the Early Cult of St. Anne
Continuing education via the Paideia Institute (including Latin reading courses on the Desert Fathers, papal documents, Athanasius Kircher, Petrarch, Guy of Amien's Carmen de Proelio Hastingae, and Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica) and the Rare Book School (including courses on the Bible and the history of reading)
Publications
“Best Mom Ever: Defining the Maternal Sanctity of St. Anne in High Medieval Liturgy,” in Motherhood in the Medieval World. Mothers in History, Literature, and Politics, c. 300-1500, ed. Kirsty Bolton and Lauren Sisson, Brepols (forthcoming)
Conference Presentations
“Corporate and Communal: Archive-Making at the MAA,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, March 2025
Recipient of a 2025 MAA Centennial Bursary
“Girlbosses in the Nunnery?: Gendered Authority in the Barking Abbey Ordinal,” Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Cambridge, MA, March 2023
“Best Mom Ever: Defining the Maternal Sanctity of St. Anne in High Medieval Liturgy,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2022
Recipient of a IMC Leeds Bursary
“Gendered Authority in the Barking Abbey Ordinal,” Medieval Church and Culture Seminar, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK, May 2022
“A Saving Grace: Locating the Early Cult of St. Anne in the Sermons of Andrew of Crete and John of Damascus,” International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2022 (virtual)
“Towards a Queer Reading of the Canso of Bietris de Roman,” Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Cleveland, OH, March 2022
“‘As It is Recorded in Complete Legends’: MS Richardson 44 and Narrative Choice,” Antiqui et Moderni: The First Harvard Undergraduate Symposium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Cambridge, MA, May 2019
Professional Activities
Committee Member and Social Media Manager, Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, 2021–22
Conference took place 21–22 April 2022 at Ertegun House, Oxford
Co-organizer (with Edmund Wareham), “A #Nuntastic Achievement: Celebrating Eileen Power One Hundred Years On,” workshop, 10 February 2022
A workshop to commemorate the centenary of the publication of Power’s Medieval English Nunneries and consider the future of convent studies, at St Benet's Hall, Oxford
Editor-in-chief, Tempus: The Harvard College History Review, 2019–20
Public-Facing Work
Mitfordiana, Substack, October 2022 – present
Irregular email newsletter about the Mitford sisters and my Mitfordian book collection
“This Church Stabbed Itself!” Enclosure Blog, 13 February 2022
Blog post about Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948), for the interdisciplinary project Enclosure
Book of Hours - Virtual Reconstruction, Fragmentarium, December 2022
Simmons SLIS group project reconstructing an early 15C French book of hours. Responsible for describing the Annunciation miniature and Middle French liturgical leaves
“The Value of Making Copies,” Temple Beth Zion Beth Israel (Philadelphia, PA), 14 August 2021
Video recording of invited d’var Torah for Parashat Shoftim, on kingship, writing, and authority
“You Go Too Fast For Me,” The Harvard Crimson, 2 September 2019
Written review of Amazon Prime’s Good Omens; shared on Twitter by Neil Gaiman himself!
“Eminent Women (1884): Twelve Women and the Photograph They Never Took,” The Library Company of Philadelphia, June 2017
Online exhibit about the history of manipulated photography; read more about my process here
Awards and Honors
Beta Phi Mu (Simmons University)
Honor society for library and information science, awarded on the basis of GPA
Class of 1955/Robert T. Coolidge Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Medieval Studies, Harvard University, 2021
Awarded to the best senior thesis in medieval studies at Harvard University
Oliver-Dabney Senior Prize, Harvard University, 2021
Awarded to a senior thesis of high distinction in History and Literature
Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard University)
One of 48 members of Harvard’s class of 2021 elected to America’s oldest academic honor society in Fall 2020
John Harvard Scholar, 2019 and 2020
Award given to top 5% of class by GPA
Committee on Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize, Harvard University, 2020
Essay title: “Mater matris: Celebrating St. Anne in the Medieval Chartrain Liturgy”
Languages
Latin (advanced reading); French (academic reading knowledge); Old English (beginning reading); Old French (beginning reading)
Research Interests
history of monasticism; liturgical studies; gender, feminist, and queer theory; fan fiction studies; politics of archival classification and use
Professional Memberships
Medieval Academy of America
Bibliographic Society of America