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. My current research includes two distinct strands. One is an experimental, book-length intellectual history project about the life and work of the American queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009). The other, focused on trans everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scotland, undergirds an ongoing programme of community partnerships and co-created research by, with, and for Glasgow’s trans community. You can read more about my approach to teaching trans history in community here.

My pronouns are he/him.