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EDUCATION

Ph.D. History. Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. Oct 2016 – May 2020. ‘Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 – c. 1640’. Fully funded AHRC-DTP-Levy Plumb scholarship.

MPhil Early Modern History. Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. Sept 2015 – June 2016. ‘Food and Protestantism in Elizabethan England, c. 1558-1603’. Distinction.

BA (Hons) History. University of Warwick. Sept 2012 – July 2015. ‘Prescribing the “Holy Body”: Understanding Nuns’ Bodies in Renaissance Florence and Venice, c. 1400- c. 1650’. First Class Honours.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Waste Not: A Kitchen History of Leftovers (Under contract with Head of Zeus).
• The Reformation of Food (in progress)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• ‘Food and Religious Identities in the Venetian Inquisition, c. 1560 – c. 1640’, Renaissance Quarterly, 74:1 (2021), pp. 181-214.
• ‘Reforming Food and Eating in Protestant England, c. 1560 – c. 1640’, The Historical Journal, 63 (2020), pp. 507-27.

Book Chapters

• ‘Food Gifts and Exchange’; ‘Food and the Seven Deadly Sins’; ‘Sharing Food and Charitable Giving’; ‘Trencher from an Accouchement Set’; ‘Special Diets for the Life Cycle’, in Melissa Calaresu and Victoria Avery (eds.), Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500 – 1800 (Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019), pp. 168-9; 188-90; 196-7; 213; 215-7.  

Special Issues

• ‘Histories of Food Waste and Sustainability’, Special Issue of Global Food History, co-edited with Katrina Moseley (Forthcoming).

Book Reviews

• Book review: Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People the Politics of the Potato (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Agricultural History Review, v. 69, part II, pp. 314-6.

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship – ‘Eating Exchanges: Food and Religious Encounter in the Early Modern World’. Cardiff University, UK. Jan 2022-Dec 2025.
• Folger Fellowship – ‘The Reformation of Food: Eating in the English and Italian Reformations’. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, USA. July 2021. With additional fellowship commendation awarded by the Before ‘Farm to Table’ project.
• Research Internship – ‘Fast Food: Eating and Youth Culture in Britain, 1970 – 2000’. IHR/ Museum of Youth Culture, London, UK. June-Sept 2020.

CONVENER ROLES

• Convener – Food History Seminar IHR, London, UK. Aug 2020 – Aug 2021.
• Co-founder and convenor – ‘Cambridge Body and Food Histories‘ interdisciplinary research group. University of Cambridge, UK. 2017-2019.

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

• ‘Food on the Move: How the Pandemic is Shaping Foodways’ , University of Warwick, July 2021.  
• ‘Waste Not, Want Not: Food and Thrift from Antiquity to the Present’ , University of Cambridge, Sept 2019.
•  ‘Food and Faith in the Early Modern World’, Christ’s College, Cambridge, Nov 2018.
•  ‘Food and Embodied Identities in the Early Modern and Modern World, c. 1500 – c. 2000’ , University of Cambridge, June 2018.
• ‘Body and Consumption History’, University of Cambridge, May 2017.

TEACHING

Supervised, taught seminar groups & lectured at the University of Cambridge (2016-2020) in the following papers: 

• Part I: Paper 9 – British Economic and Social History, c. 1500-1750
• Part I: Paper 4 – British Political History 1485-1714
• Part I: Paper 14: Material Culture in the Early Modern World 
• Part II: Paper H – Food and Drink in Britain and the Wider World, c. 1550 – 1800 
• Part II: Historical Argument and Practice.

Ran additional workshops:

• ‘Material Culture’ (A-level summer school), Online, August 2020.
• ‘Hungry Historians: A Delicious and Disgusting Journey Through Time‘ (KS2 students), Faculty of History, Cambridge, February 2019.
• ‘The Reformations’ (visiting American undergraduate students) Christ’s College, Cambridge, August 2017.

SELECTED ACADEMIC TALKS

• ‘Pious Eating in Reformation England and Italy’, Early Modern Studies Seminar, University of Bristol, UK (June 2021) [Invited speaker].
• ‘The Long Reformation: Theological Eating’, Refo500, University of Aarhaus, Denmark (May 2021).
• ‘Eating in Conversion Narratives’, Food & The Book, 1300-1800, Newberry Library & Folger Shakespeare Library, USA (Oct 2020).
• ‘Eating with Heretics: Protestant and Jewish Food in the Venetian Inquisition’, Early Modern History Workshop, University of Cambridge, UK (Jan 2020) [Invited speaker].
• ‘Food and the Reformation in London’, Eating and Drinking in the Pre-Industrial City, Social History Society, London, UK (July 2019) [Invited speaker].
• “His meate be receiued into his soule”: Food and Religion in the European Reformations’, Food History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK (Jan 2019).
• ‘Food and Religious Identities in the European Reformations’ Entanglements of the Religious, University of Tübingen, Germany (Sept 2018) [Invited speaker].
• ‘Holy Food and the Church in Reformation England and Italy, c. 1560 – c. 1640’, Anglo-German Doctoral Summer School, German-Historical Institute, London, UK (Aug 2018).
•  ‘Food and Inter-confessional Encounters in Reformation England and Italy’, Society for Renaissance Studies 8^th Biannual Conference, University of Sheffield, UK (July 2018). 
• ‘Food and the Body in Early Modern England’, Food, Feast, Fast, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, UK (May 2018) [Invited speaker].
• ‘Feasting and Celebration in Reformation England’, Material Cultures of Food Workshop, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, UK (Oct 2017) [Invited speaker].
• ‘Abstinence and Fish: Defining a Protestant Fasting Culture in the Elizabethan Reformation’, Third International Conference on Food History and Cultures, European Institute for the History of Cultures of Food, Tours, France (June 2017).

MUSEUM WORK

• Research on food and youth culture in 20th century Britain curated as full wall display at the Museum of Youth Culture, London (Oct 2020).
• Research contributed to the exhibition ‘Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500 – 1800’, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Nov 2019 – Aug 2020).

LANGUAGES

English (native), Italian, Spanish, Latin

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