I am a cultural historian of early modern Europe and Senior Tutor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. My research asks how people make sense of time, place and disruption. Its historical core is seventeenth-century Britain, especially the ways writers responded to civil war, regicide and political uncertainty.
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 unexpected regicide, and how they placed it within longer narratives of providence, monarchy, generations and rebellion.
Collaborative projects extend these questions into digital history, Indigenous cultural geography, environmental research and public engagement. I use GIS, data visualisation and computer vision to recover Indigenous presence from historical maps, and I work with museums and libraries to connect research, collections and wider audiences.
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. At NUS, I teach European history, cultural astronomy, digital history and public history.
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.