Biography
2021-Present: PhD Theology and Religious Studies (Cambridge, Clare College). Funded by the Crosse Studentship.
2020-2021: MPhil Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament track (Cambridge, St Catharine's College). Distinction; awarded an MPhil Prize by the Faculty of Divinity.
2017-2020: BA Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge, St Catharine's College), MA (Cantab) conferred in 2024. First Class; awarded the Junior Scholefield Prize by the Faculty of Divinity, and the Corrie Prize in Theology, Cuthbert Casson Prize in Theology, and Mrs Julian Stafford (1627) Scholarship by St Catharine's.
Research
- The social, political and economic history of the Benjamin region
- Political economy of the kingdom of Judah
- Social-scientific approaches to the Hebrew Bible
- Levantine archaeology
- The peasantry of Israel/Judah
Teaching and Supervisions
Supervising undergraduates in the following papers:
- A2 (David: Israel's Greatest Hero?)
- B2 (Israel in Exile: Literature, History and Theology)
Other Professional Activities
Selected conference papers presented:
- 'Epigraphic Evidence and Biblical Polemic: A New Perspective on Ideological Conflict and Class Composition in Benjamin' (Invited paper at the SBL Annual Meeting 2023, Documentary Texts and Literary Interpretation unit)
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'Flee for safety, O People of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem!': Benjaminite Resistance and the Judahite ‘State’’ (SBL Annual Meeting 2023, Historiography and the Hebrew Bible unit)
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'Avoiding extraction: peasants and the politics of pork in the kingdom of Judah’ (SBL Annual Meeting 2022, Economics in the Biblical World Unit)
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'Amos the nōqēd: a case study of the class politics of Israel’s countryside' (24th Congress of the International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), 2022)
Volunteer on the following archaeological excavations:
- Tel Moẓa (2023)
- Tell Keisan (2019)
