Greetings! I am a Wellcome Early Career Award recipient based in the School of Philosophy,  Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds.  As an interdisciplinary scholar, my work draws from the history and philosophy of science and medicine, childhood studies, sociology, theology, and material culture addressing questions that lie at the interface of the sciences and humanities, particularly as they concern children and childhood. I hold a PhD in Childhood Studies,  an MA in the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, an MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine,  and a BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Moreover, I have earned the Cambridge CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults), having completed training at the British Council.

As a teacher with at least 16 years of experience in the U.S. and abroad (in various departments such as Philosophy and Religion, Childhood Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and English Language and Literature), former education director of a non-profit organisation, and international admissions assistant director of a private college, I am passionate about liberal arts education, cultural and intellectual exchange,  interdisciplinary research and teaching, meaningful and impactful public engagement, character development, and human flourishing.

My research has been supported by fellowships and grants at various institutions such as the Library Company of Philadelphia, American Antiquarian Society, UCLA Medical Library Special Collections, Winterthur Library and Museum, Princeton University Costen Children's Library, National Science Foundation, the Acton Institute, and the Health Humanities Center at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

My research interests and areas of expertise are in the history of childhood, history of child health and medicine, philosophy of science and medicine, history of developmental psychology,  the history of science and religion, the history of education, children's material culture,  and discourses on agency and personhood.

Before my role at Leeds, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Kilachand Honors College of Boston University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Health Humanities of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, USA. Previously, I worked in collaboration with the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on an NEH-funded digital humanities project aimed to unearth and digitise the underrepresented voices of individuals and communities living in Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

Currently, I am working on my first book, Constructing Moral Babies: Science of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century America and Britain.  At the University of Leeds, I will be working on the history and philosophy of infants, infancy, and infant care as conceptualised in Britain and America from the late eighteenth and through the long nineteenth century.