Publications

My publications examine how knowledge is produced, structured, circulated, and governed through moral language, institutional practice, technical systems, and scholarly infrastructure. They move across early modern history, digital humanities, and contemporary debates about information and ethics, united by a shared concern with how authority is made to appear natural, neutral, or inevitable.

Some of this work traces the historical relationship between language, legitimacy, and power, particularly in early modern Scotland and Britain. Other pieces are methodological, addressing computational approaches to historical texts and the reuse of digital research infrastructure. A further strand engages questions of accessibility, inclusion, and ethics in academic and public scholarship, including digital public history and scholarly publishing.

Taken together, these publications reflect a sustained interest in how intellectual, institutional, and technical systems determine what counts as knowledge, and who is allowed to participate in producing it.

Books Are Where Arguments Go To Live Longer: Books & Edited Volumes

Networks and Networking in Scottish Studies: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Ewan
Edited with Sierra Dye and Mariah Hudec.
Guelph: Centre for Scottish Studies, 2024.

A festschrift honouring Elizabeth Ewan. As editor, I led the volume’s open-access publication and oversaw accessible production in line with WCAG 2.2 standards, reflecting Ewan’s longstanding commitment to inclusive scholarship. I also served as primary author of the volume’s land acknowledgment, informed by sustained work with First Nations communities across Canada.

Peer Review Is a Contact Sport: Journal Articles & Scholarly Essays

“Foreword: On Digital Accessibility and Open-Access Publishing.”
In Networks and Networking in Scottish Studies, 2024.

A reflection on accessibility, ethics, and responsibility within scholarly publishing infrastructures.

“Out of the Ivory Tower, into the Digital World? Democratising Scholarly Exchange.”
With Fraser Raeburn and Viktoria Porter.
History 106, no. 171 (2022): 287–301.
An analysis of AskHistorians as a model for public-facing, digitally mediated historical scholarship.

“Gender, Authority, and Control: Male Invective and the Restriction of Female Ambition in Early Modern Scotland and England, 1583–1616.”
International Review of Scottish Studies 44 (2019): 35–56.
An examination of how accusations of ambition functioned as a gendered rhetorical tool—policing women’s authority while stabilizing masculine political power.

Invited to the Table: Invited & Forthcoming Work

“The Rational Machine and the Feminized Interface: How Oppression Became the Epistemology of AI.”
In The De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship: DS/DH at the Kitchen Table.
Edited by Anne Cong-Huyen and Kim Brillante Knight.
Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2027.
This chapter traces how gendered assumptions became embedded in the epistemological foundations of artificial intelligence and interface design.

Ambition and Authority in Early Modern Scotland
Monograph project. Proposal in preparation; invited to submit by Boydell & Brewer.
A book-length expansion of my dissertation, examining ambition as a moral and political category within early modern governance.

When the Method Is the Message: Digital Humanities & Computational Scholarship

Invited Code Deposit, Oxford Text Archive (2025).
Custom word-embedding research code deposited to support replication and reuse in historical text analysis, particularly for EEBO-based corpora.

“Word Embedding for the Historian: Employing LSI to Understand How Words Were Historically Used.”
CSDH–SCHN Conference Proceedings, 2020.
Introduces semantic modeling as a method for reconstructing historically contingent meanings in intellectual history.

Things I Am Actively Making Worse (in a Productive Way): Works In Progress

At Their Mother’s Knee: Women as Drivers of Cultural Shift in Perthshire Kin Networks, 1550–1650
(planned submission: Scottish Historical Review)
Influence Without Authority: Networks and the Mediation of Ambition in Early Modern Scotland, 1560–1700
(planned submission: Journal of Scottish Historical Studies)
Computational Approaches to the Study of Ambition: Word Embeddings, Early Modern Language, and Control
(planned submission: Digital Studies)
Beaded Optics: White Feminine Performativity, Institutional Complicity, and the Linguistic Performance of Allyship in the Reconciliation Economy
(planned submission: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society)