Principal Lecturer in History, University of South Wales

BA (Hons) History, QMW, London 1990

MA Women's History, Royal Holloway, London, 1994

PhD 'Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Eichstätt,' Royal Holloway, London, 2002

Caroline Skeel Essay Prize, Westfield College, 1989

DAAD German Language Scholarship, 1996

German Historical Institute London Scholarship, 1997

Scouloudi Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research, London, 2000-1

Postdoctoral Research Scholarship, History Department, King's College London, 2003-4

Various temporary teaching positions covering sabbatical leave at the University of Essex, Royal Holloway, Birkbeck College, the University of Sussex, the University of Hertfordshire, and Cardiff University, 1999-2005

‘The Osculum Infame: Heresy, Secular Culture and the Image of the Witches’ Sabbath,’ in Karen Harvey (ed.), The Kiss in History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp.36-59

‘Friendship in Catholic Reformation Eichstätt,’ in Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds.), Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp.66-87

‘Eichstätt, Prince-Bishopric of,’ ‘Executions’ and ‘Jailers,’ in Richard Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, vol. 2, E-J (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), pp.307-8, 335-6 and 582-3 respectively. [Winner of the 2007 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Best Reference Book on the Early Modern Period, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference]

‘Kiss of Shame’, in Richard Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, vol. 3, K-P (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), pp. 611-12

Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany (Leiden: Brill, 2007)

'Why Some Men and not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt,' in Alison Rowlands (ed.), Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 100-20

Jonathan Durrant and Michael D. Bailey (eds.), Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft (2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012)

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