I am a historian of early modern Europe with a research focus on sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy. My research explores the intersections of medicine, law and religion. My first book, Abortion in Early Modern Italy, examined Italian attitudes and practices surrounding abortion. My current project, Bodies of Crime in Early Modern Italy, investigates the development of forensic medicine in sixteenth and seventeenth century Rome.

Early modern Europe

Law and society

History of medicine

History of religion

Abortion in Early Modern Italy Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2021

With John M. Hunt, eds. Making Stories in Early Modern Italy and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen. Toronto: CRRS, 2024

With Diego Pirillo, eds. Rethinking Catholicism in Early Modern Italy: Gender, Space, Mobility, special issue of Religions 14 (2023)

European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book Award, for Abortion in Early Modern Italy, 2023

Peter Gonville Stein Book Award for best book in legal history outside of the field of US legal history, American Society for Legal History, for Abortion in Early Modern Italy, 2022

Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize, Society for Renaissance Studies, Highly Commended, for Abortion in Early Modern Italy, 2022

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, Honorable Mention, for Abortion in Early Modern Italy