My research examines how societies remember, reinterpret, and repurpose the past, particularly through the intersections of cultural memory, gender, and national identity. I am especially interested in the ways historical figures become cultural symbols whose meanings shift across political, social, and historical contexts.
Cultural Memory • Gender • National Identity • British History
Current Research
Boudica and the Making of Cultural Memory
My doctoral research traces the cultural memory of Boudica from Roman accounts through her later reinvention in British historical culture. The project examines how changing representations of Boudica have reflected—and helped construct—ideas about gender, power, resistance, and national identity across different historical periods.
Research Interests
- Cultural memory and memory studies
- Gender and historical representation
- British cultural and intellectual history
- Reception and reinterpretation of the ancient past
- National identity and historical memory
- Monuments, commemoration, and public memory
- Historiography and historical practice
Works in Progress
Boudica and the Making of Cultural Memory: Gender, Nation, and the Afterlives of Britain’s Warrior Queen
Doctoral dissertation, Ph.D. in History, Liberty University — in progress
This project examines Boudica not only as a historical figure, but as a continually reconstructed site of cultural memory. Beginning with the accounts of Tacitus and Cassius Dio, it follows the ways later generations have interpreted, appropriated, and commemorated Boudica in response to changing ideas about gender, empire, resistance, and British national identity.
