I am an historian and American studies scholar specializing in children's rights and activism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I have published research on child labour, child welfare campaigns, and specific organizations including the Young Pioneers of America and the Junior KKK. I have also published research on historical theory and method concerning the interpretation of historical children's drawings. For more detail, please see the publications page. 

I was awarded my PhD by the University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in January 2022. I currently teach at the University of Roehampton, London, and was the 2021 recipient of the Scottish Association for the Study of America's Ellen Craft Prize. 

I am available for media work and historical consultancy. I have contributed to various international news publications and new media formats including podcasts regarding my research and related current issues including children's rights and public policy in the United States.

I am currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Young Reds in the Big Apple which builds on my research of the Young Pioneers of America recently published in New York History. 

I am also working on a journal article project examining the politicization of Christmas during the Great Depression as well as writing up a chapter for an edited collection under contract with the University of London Press examining the history of children, adult prisons, and capital punishment in the United States.