Professional Appointments

2024–

Honorary Fellow

Department of Archaeology, Durham University

2020–2024

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of History, Art History and Classics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

NWO VICI Research Project: Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East (c.7th–15th)

2022

Postdoctoral Fellow

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin, Germany

2019–2020

Leverhulme Study Abroad Postdoctoral Fellow

Palace Museum Archaeological Institute, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Education

2015–2019

PhD, Medieval Archaeology

Department of Archaeology, Durham University

AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Award

Thesis title: Weathering a Medieval Climate: Gauging the impact of natural disasters on northern European society through archaeology and history AD 1000–1550

2013–2014

MA by Research, Medieval Archaeology

Department of Archaeology, Durham University

2010–2013

BA, Archaeology

Department of Archaeology, Durham University

Recent Grants and Achievments

  • 2022: Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) Outgoing Mobility Grant
  • 2022: German Archaeological Institute (DAI) Postdoctoral Fellowship: Global Archaeology, Sustainable Archaeology and the Archaeology of Sustainability
  • 2022: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Partnership
  • 2021: Gerda Henkel Stiftung Research Project: Dating the Remains of an Agricultural System in Southern Iraq
  • 2021: Winner of De Gruyter Open Access Anniversary Competition
  • 2018: Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship: The Emergence of Globalised Trade in Medieval China

Conferences and Events Organized

  • 2024: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East: Forces from Above and Below, 6th–8th February 2023, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC), Egypt (Co-Organizer)
  • 2023: Water and the Urban Rural Nexus in the Medieval Islamic World: Modelling Linkages Between Urban Populations, Agricultural Hinterlands and Water Supply, 30th–31st March 2023, Radboud University, the Netherlands (Lead Organizer)
  • 2022: Aqueducts, Canals, Qanats: Construction and management of water conduits in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East, 23rd–24th June 2022, Radboud University, the Netherlands (Co-Organizer)
  • 2020: Flowing Together: Archaeological and Historical Approaches to Middle Eastern Water Management (7th–15th Centuries), 12th–13th November 2020, Radboud University, the Netherlands (Lead Organizer)