CV

Academic Posts

  • 2020-2025: FWO Post-doctoraal Onderzoeker – Junior, Universiteit Gent
  • 2021-2023: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, University of Liverpool
  • 2019-2020: Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin

Service Posts

  • 2022-Present: Articles Editor, Comparative Legal History
  • 2022-2023: Committee Member and Anti-Casualisation Officer, University of Liverpool UCU Branch

Education

  • 2019-2020: Postgrad Certificate in Education (PGCE), Trinity College Dublin
  • 2013-2017: PhD in Medieval History, Trinity College Dublin

Research Presentations

  • Lecture Series: ‘Introducing Medieval Ireland to Hungary’, Department of Roman Law and Comparative Legal History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 4-8 November 2019 (funded by Erasmus+)
Invited Seminar Papers
  • ‘Murder was the case that they gave me: legal status of people in medieval English Ireland as seen through criminal case records’, Henri Pirenne Institute, Universiteit Gent, 13 March 2020
  • ‘Socio-legal status of minorities within the English lands in medieval Ireland, 1250-1320’, CAMPS Lab, National University of Ireland Galway, 31 January 2020
  •  ‘“It was not a felony to kill a Gaelic man” and other lies my teacher told me’, James Lydon Medieval History Research Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, 25 Jan 2018
  • ‘The intersection of ethnicity, gender, and the law in English Ireland’, James Lydon Medieval History Research Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, 26 Oct 2016
  • ‘Free Gaelic people in English Ireland, 1253-1327’, James Lydon Medieval History Research Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, 12 Feb 2015
Conference Papers
  • ‘Accessibility or Teleology? Mistranslating cultural terms: Anglosaxonising thirteenth-century English people by twenty-first-century historians’, Decoding the Past: Critical Editions and their Editors, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, 2 November 2019
  •  ‘Eadem/idem non est Anglica/-us, sed possit uti legibus et libertatibus Anglorum in Hibernia (she/he is not English, but can use the laws and liberties of the English in Ireland): “citizenship” and medieval English Ireland’, XXVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, Brussels, 6 June 2019
  • ‘False memory of medieval Ireland’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 3 July 2018
  • ‘Creating the common law: the effects of repeated pleas in court on thirteenth-century English law in Ireland’, British Legal History Conference, University College, London, 5 July 2017
  • ‘Was there coverture in medieval English Ireland?’, Litigating Women Conference, Swansea University, 29 June 2017
  •  ‘Anglica, Hibernica, or Other? The experiences of free Gaelic women in the English royal courts in Ireland, 1252-1327’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6 July 2016
  • ‘Remembering the Ostmen: the other Irish identity’, Borderlines XX, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, 17 April 2016
  • ‘The legal ramifications of “ethnic” identification in English Ireland, 1252-1327’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6 July 2015
  • ‘The free Gaelic men in English Ireland, 1252-1327’, Irish Conference of Medievalists, University College, Dublin, 1 July 2015
  •  ‘An overlooked petition: re-examining the Geraldine-de Burgh private war of 1264-5’, 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, 8 May 2014
Public Engagement Talks
  • ‘Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland’, Institute of Irish Studies Book Launch, University of Liverpool, 16 March 2022
  • ‘The oldest surviving (original) court roll: the Dublin Bench roll, Easter 1290’, Medieval Dublin Symposium XX, Trinity College, Dublin, 19 May 2018

Teaching Experience

University of Liverpool
  • ‘Fieldtrip to Ireland and Study Methods’ (1st year undergraduate module), 1 section, module coordinator
  • ‘Vikings in Ireland’ (3rd year undergraduate module), 2 sections
  • ‘Ireland’s Battle for Ideas’ (1st year undergraduate module), 2 sections
  • ‘Warriors, Witches and Legends: the Origins of Ireland’ (1st year undergraduate module), 4 sections
  • ‘Research Methods for Irish Studies’ (2nd year undergraduate module), 2 section
Trinity College Dublin
  • ‘MPhil Sources’ (taught-Master’s module), 1 section
  • ‘The Hundred Years War’ (2nd year undergraduate module), 2 sections
  • ‘Europe 1215-1517: Religion, Death & Culture’ (1st year undergraduate module), 3 sections
  • ‘Kingship and Warfare: Ireland c.1000-c.1318’ (1st year undergraduate module), 6 sections
  • ‘Doing History’ (1st year undergraduate module), 2 sections
  • ‘Popes, Kings, and Crusades: the Rise of Papal Power in Christendom’ (1st year undergraduate module), 2 sections

Pedagogical Training

  • University of Liverpool, ‘Introduction to being a PhD supervisor at University of Liverpool’, May 2022
  • Trinity College Staff Professional Development: Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice: ‘Enabling Student Partnership in Assessment’, Jan-Feb 2020
  • Trinity College Staff Professional Development: Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice: ‘Research Supervision in Higher Education’, Feb-March 2019
  • Trinity College Staff Professional Development: Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice: ‘Integrating Research and Teaching Within and Beyond the Disciplines’, Jan-Feb 2019
  • Department of History (TCD): ‘Presenting and Lecturing’, Nov 2015
  • Department of History (TCD): ‘Marking Undergraduate Papers’, Oct 2015
  • Trinity College Career Services: ‘Session Planning’, Oct 2015
  • Trinity College Career Services: ‘Introduction to Teaching at Trinity College’, Oct 2015

Conference Organisation

  • ‘Decoding the Past: Critical Editions and Their Editors’, The Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, 1-2 November 2019. Co-organisers: Ariana Malthaner and Alexandra Corey. Funded by the City of Dublin, TCD’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD’s School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity Association & Trust, the Society for Renaissance Studies, and Medium Aevum (Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature).
  •  ‘Challenging Grand Narratives’, Medieval History Research Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, 8-9 June 2017. Co-organisers: Lynn Kilgallon and Niall Ó Súilleabháin. Funded by the Irish Research Council, Trinity Trust, and TCD’s Department of History.

Professional Memberships

  • Pipe Roll Society
  • European Society for Comparative Legal History
  • University and College Union
  • Selden Society
  • Irish Legal History Society