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Education
MA, University of Sheffield, 2022, American History
BA, University of Sheffield, 2021, History
About Me
My research focuses on the social history of Civil War Era Appalachia. I am particularly interested in how the events of the American Civil War are remembered within the region's rich oral tradition.
At Auburn, my work has broadly been focused on loyalty and dissent within Appalachian communities during the Civil War Era. During this period of national crisis, the region's rugged, mountainous terrain played a central role in shaping local dissent against civil and military authority.
So far, my project has engaged with the experiences of three mountain spaces lying on both sides of the front line: Watauga County, North Carolina; Jackson County, Alabama; and Perry County, Kentucky. Incorporating such a broad range of communities enables for a more thorough exploration of wartime life across Appalachia, whilst also challenging traditional definitions of the region's mid-Nineteenth Century boundaries. In April 2025, I received Auburn University's Hitchcock Graduate Award to support me with my research for this project. I received Auburn's Flynt Graduate Award in December 2025.
My MA thesis, "'Going Across the Mountain' - Isolation and Conflicting Loyalties in North Carolina's 'Lost Provinces' During the Civil War Era", explored the devastating effects the Civil War had on the communities of North Carolina's Ashe and Watauga Counties in the era surrounding the conflict. I achieved Distinction in my MA in American History at the University of Sheffield and was awarded the Bryan Marsden Prize in American History during my period of study.
Research Interests
Social History in Appalachia; Environmental and Landscape History; Civil War History