I am the third student in the AHRC funded ‘Modern Craft: History, Theory and Practice’ collaborative RCA/V&A studentship. I completed an MA in European History at UCL in 2008 and my dissertation concerned the renaissance of medieval stain-glass and illuminated manuscripts in late nineteenth-century France, focusing on how these revived crafts communicated social difference dependent on procedures of making, critical reception and the object’s adherence to historical example. The thesis followed work on the theory of history, and focused studies on nineteenth-century France.

My background is in history and modernity: the focus of my undergraduate degree in History at UCL. During my MA I worked for the Architecture Programme at the Royal Academy of Arts in which I helped organise lectures and events concerning architectural history and contemporary issues relating to architecture’s role in society.