I am a 2011-12 Dibner Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at The Huntington Library, California. Until August 2011 I was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (Department of History and Civilisation).
My research focuses on British and French eighteenth-century history, with a special interest in the cultural and social history of science.

I completed my PhD in History at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2010. My thesis is entitled 'Cultivating Commerce: Connoisseurship, Botany and the Plant Trade in London and Paris, c. 1760 - c. 1815'. I am currently preparing it for publication as a monograph.
 
My postdoctoral project, 'Remapping Enlightenment: Botany in Cultural and Global Context, c.1700-c.1815' places the Enlightenment fascination with botany in cultural and global context. It will study how people, specimens, scholarly knowledge and cultural artefacts moved, circulated and influenced each other as part of eighteenth-century correspondence networks.
 
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