Staff Profiles

I am a Lecturer in History (0.5fte).

I currently hold the role of Deputy Degree Programme Director for History.

My scholarly interests include the history of the Mediterranean region and European history, broadly defined.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was nominated for a Newcastle Teaching Award in 2020.

I joined Newcastle University as a part-time Teaching Associate in 2012, leading seminars and delivering lectures on European history, world history, the history of empire , and historical methods.

Qualifications

DPhil History, Oxford

MA. Early Modern European History, King's College London

BA Hons. History, Malta

 My research interests include the history of the Mediterranean region, the social history of noble households, and the history of military religious orders. My published work includes contributions to the history of eighteenth-century Sicily, Malta and the Order of St. John (the Hospitallers).

I contribute teaching to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate team taught modules including:

HIS1101 Evidence and Argument

HIS2325 The Mediterranean: A Connected Past

HIS3020 Writing History

HIS8053 Conflict in European History