Education

University of California, Berkeley
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation Title: “The Reformation Suits: Litigation as Constitution-Making in a German Imperial Court, 1521-1555”
Committee Members: David Lieberman, JSP (Chair) • Christopher Tomlins, JSP • Jonathan Sheehan, History • Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Religious Studies (Indiana Univ.) 

Dartmouth College
B.A. Philosophy, cum laude
2008

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, 2019-2021
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo

Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, 2017
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Visiting Research Fellow, 2014-2017
History Department, Brown University
Faculty Advisors: Tara Nummedal (2014-2016), Michael Vorenberg (2016-2017)

Methodology Grant for Early New High German Tutor, 2016
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley

Summer Research Grant, 2015
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, UC Berkeley

Religion & Diversity Project, Research Grant, 2015
University of Ottawa, Canada

Graduate Student Fellowship, 2015
University of Cologne, Germany

Latin Intensive Workshop, Tuition Scholarship, 2014
UC Berkeley

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 2014
Legal Studies, UC Berkeley

Dartmouth College General Fellowship, 2009-2010
Post-graduate grant for masters coursework in Socio-Cultural Studies at Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder.

Fulbright Fellowship, 2008-2009
Berlin, Germany

Service

Programming Committee Member for American Society for Legal History Conference, 2017

Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference, Co-organizer, 2017
Brown University

Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Founding Co-organizer, 2016
Brown University

Legal Studies Reading Group, Founder, Co-convener, 2015-2017
Brown University

Legal History Faculty Search Committee for JSP, UC Berkeley, 2012-2013
Graduate Student Representative; selected by peers

Conference or Workshop Presentations

Cultures of Litigation in the Holy Roman Empire: The Reformation Cases, 1521-1555, January 2021
Early Modern Colloquium, University of Giessen, Germany

Politics of Religion at Home and Abroad, Emerging Scholars panel, May 2019
Capstone Symposium for Luce Foundation funded 3-year project, Indiana University at Bloomington

“Creating and Confronting the Archive,” Panel Discussant, April 2018
Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference, Brown University

“What Puts the ‘Protest’ in ‘Protestantism’? Legal Speech Acts in Early Reformation Germany,” January 2018
Book Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway

“The Protestant ‘Power of Attorney’ of 1531: Co-Litigation in Early Reformation Germany and Legal Matrices of Belonging,” November 2017
American Society for Legal History, Las Vegas, NV
Coordinated panel titled “Legibility and Legalism in the Early Modern”

“‘Of What Nature and Essence They May Be’: Attempts to Define ‘Religion’ as a Category of Legal Issue, 1530-1533,” September 2016
Legal History Workshop, Brown University

“The 1530 Protestant Power of Attorney: Legal Matrices of Belonging and the Construction of ‘Religion,’” April 2016
Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota

“Legal Creativity or Vulgarization? Litisconsorten and the Cognizability of Difference in Sixteenth-Century Germany,” March 2016
Law and Humanities Strategic Working Group, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley

“Using Court Records and Case Files: Lessons from Across the Disciplines,” October 2015
Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group, Brown University

“‘Suspicion’ on the Bench: The Protestant Recusal of the Imperial Court in 1534,” November 2014
American Society for Legal History, Denver, CO
Presented in inaugural ASLH Graduate Student Research Colloquium