I am a historian of gender and sexuality, education, and the politics, society, and culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. I am Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality at the University of Glasgow. I received my PhD in History from Columbia University in 2020, and was a Junior Research Fellow and tutor in History at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford from 2020 until 2024.

My research focuses on the categories that people have used to make sense of, categorise, and regulate gender and sexuality; how these have changed over time; what intellectual sources informed their ideas; how these ideas have interacted with the structures of the state and other regulatory institutions; and what the experiences of members of gender and sexual minority communities can tell us about the broader logics that govern gender and sexuality in the modern West.

My first book, Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939, was published by Oxford University Press in April 2025. I am currently working on an experimental intellectual history project about John Addington Symonds, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and trans-inclusive gay male histories; and on a book-length survey of British LGBTQ+ history 1820–present that explores the relationship between queer and trans life and the UK state. I also maintain an active interest in queer classical reception, am becoming increasingly interested in the history of the internet, and might someday write something about LGBTQ+ young people and the debates around the equalisation of the age of consent in late-twentieth-century Britain.

My pronouns are he/him.