I am a historian of early modern Europe and the wider world, interested in the intersections of religion, commerce, empire, and governance. My research explores how people, institutions, and corporations negotiated questions of authority, identity, and belonging across an increasingly interconnected world, particularly in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. My first book, Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698 (2022), examines how religion shaped English overseas expansion, particularly the relationship between commercial corporations, religious authority, and colonial governance. My wider publications explore questions of identity, mobility, trade, and institutional power. Building on this work, my current research examines Protestant evangelism and missionary corporations as agents of religious and imperial change. I am also developing a comparative project on English and Portuguese imperial governance in early modern Asia, exploring how European institutions, political practices, and ideas of sovereignty were negotiated and reshaped through encounters with diverse local societies.
