Biography
BA in Politics and Middle Eastern Studies (Honors), University of Virginia, 2012
MA in Comparative Art & Archaeology (Distinction), University College London, 2018
(Dissertation: All the King’s Creatures: Apotropaic Figure Deposits and Court Culture in the Late Assyrian Period)
Research
My PhD research explores how cultural behaviour, political policy, and medical knowledge influenced the apotropaic and therapeutic use of images in the Neo-Assyrian period. I will attempt to reconstruct spatial and temporal routes of image transmission, focusing especially on figurine deposits and cylinder seals. I will also consider the cognitive interplay between verbal and visual modes of communication concerning wellbeing and personal protection in their wider institutional context. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, this project will show how this remedial relationship between supernatural imagery and personal wellbeing could be directly implicated in imperial strategies of domination.
Teaching and Supervisions
Supervisor: Dr. Augusta McMahon
Advisor: Dr. Martin Worthington
Other Professional Activities
Member of Clare College
Cambridge Trust Scholar (2019- present)