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Adjunct Professor of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland

I am an historian of late medieval and early modern Europe, specifically England. My work focuses on two avenues - the history of sense perception and sensory culture in religious life, and how they intersect with natural philosophy, medical, and lived experience. And second, digital history, where I build research platforms for historical research with a focus on linked open data, and modelling of historical events / actions using network theories. I am currently prototyping a tool - www.nanohistory.org - that permits historical scholars to trace small narrative fragments, allowing them to build large complex data-driven representations of historical phenomena that bind traditional archival methods with computational techniques and tools.

Experience

  • –present
    Adjunct Professor of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Education

  • 2012 
    Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Licentiate
  • 2007 
    University of Warwick, PhD / History

Publications

  • 2017
    Introducing DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity), with Stephen Wittek & Stefan Sinclair, Digital Humanities Quarterly
  • 2014
    The Senses in Religion: Towards the Reformation of the Senses, in A Cultural History of the Senses: the Renaissance, eds Constance Classen and Herman Roodenburg
  • 2013
    The Physics of Holy Oats: Vernacular Knowledge, Qualities, and Remedy in Fifteenth-Century England, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • 2011
    The Senses and the English Reformation,