Research Presentations
The Clèves Sisters in Conflict: Affection Across Factions in the French Civil Wars
Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Portland, OR, USA) October 2025.
Noblewomen’s Confessional and Political Networks on the Eve of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres
Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Toronto, Ontario, CAN) October 2024.
Noblewomen’s Transregional Diplomacy in the Netherlands Campaign of Marguerite de Valois
The Western Society of French History & The Society for French Historical Studies (Detroit, Michigan, USA) March 2023.
The Guise Women as Political Influencers and Family Negotiators
The Western Society for French History (Portland, Maine, USA) November 2018.
Jacqueline de Longwy, Political Advisor to Queen Catherine de Medici
Kings & Queens Conference 7: Ruling Sexualities (Winchester, UK) July 2018.
Languages
French (expert)
reading, writing, speaking, research proficiencies
Université de Paris IV: Sorbonne; cours pratique; niveau intermédiare B1.1; mention assez bien (Spring 2013)
Collège Internationale de Cannes; cours d’introduction (January 2013)
Spanish (advanced)
reading, research proficiencies
Italian (intermediate)
reading, research proficiencies
Historical & Methodological Training
Center for Renaissance Studies Institute in French Paleography
Newberry Library, Summer 2021
QGIS: Georeferencing Historical Maps
Georgetown University, Spring 2017
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Georgetown University
Ph.D. in History, Europe (2024)
Dissertation: Noblewomen’s Political Networks across the European Wars of Religion (1559-1633)
Defended with Distinction
M.A. in Global, International, and Comparative History (2018)
Thesis: “Entre Fiction et Histoire: Catherine de Medici reine mère, reine noire, and femme politique”
Auburn University Honors College
B.A. History and French (Double Major)
magna cum laude
University Honors Scholar
Publications
“Networks of Affection and Alliance: Catherine de Medici and Female Political Practice during the Minority of Charles IX”
The Sixteenth Century Journal 56, no. 4 (Winter 2025), 833-851.
“They say that all women have the same apprehension”: Anxiety and Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Pregnancy”
Nursing Clio (May 2025)
Media Appearances
Podcasts
“When Women Ruled the Low Countries”
Not Just the Tudors with Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, History Hit, UK (2025)
“Habsburg Women: Matriarchs of Power”
Not Just the Tudors with Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, History Hit, UK (2025)
Grants, Fellowships, & Titles
Fulbright Grant Recipient, Belgium*
2020-2021, unable to travel due to Covid-19
Cosmos Club Foundation Scholar
Spring 2022
Reed College Visiting Scholar
2022-2024
Newberry Library Research Fellow
September 2021