Biography

I grew up in Davidson, North Carolina and Williams College. As a Gates Scholar, I completed an MPhil in European Literature and Culture, concentrating on Early Modern German. As an undergraduate, I spent the past two summers researching eighteenth-century ceremonial diplomatic encounters between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. This research challenged essentialized views of the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Central Europe and contextualized today’s debates about European culture. At Cambridge, I continued to study the early modern world, focusing on early modern German literary and historical representations of diplomatic friendship.
After my time at Cambridge, I worked in educational publishing in Boston and New York, as well as in public health during the Covid-19 pandemic. I now live in Berlin, Germany, where I work in communications and strategy for Ekin Deligöz, a representative in the German parliament and the Parliamentary State Secretary (deputy minister) of the German Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women, and Youth.