I am a cultural historian and Senior Tutor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. I study how people make sense of rupture, time, and place: how unexpected events disturb familiar worlds, and how new accounts of the past and future restore, contest, or remake order. The historical core of this work is seventeenth-century Britain.
My current book manuscript examines the execution of Charles I in 1649 as a moment of intellectual change and adaptation. It traces how astrologers, historians, and newsbook authors interpreted an unprecedented regicide, and how they placed it within longer narratives of providence, monarchy, generations, and rebellion.
Across my wider research programme, this concern with interpretation and power connects digital history, Indigenous cultural geography, environmental research, and public engagement. I combine close reading with GIS, data visualisation, and computer vision to recover Indigenous presence from historical maps. Work with museums, libraries, universities, and public bodies extends that research into exhibitions, digital resources, curriculum development, and policy evidence.
Moving between archives, spatial methods, and public practice is central to my work. Each makes it possible to ask, in a different register, how knowledge is produced, whose claims become visible, and what historical evidence can do beyond the academy.
I hold a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in International Relations from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and a joint BA/PhB in History from NUS and the Australian National University. I am Associate Editor of Cambridge Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.