BA, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Political Science and International Relations (2004-07); Honours (Medieval and Early Modern Studies), First Class (1A) (2008).

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Funded by a Federal Commercialisation Training scheme scholarship

Units in Knowledge Transfer, Sustainability, Leadership and Project Management

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Radical History Review, vol.116, ‘Water: History, Power, Crisis’

The essay in the winning collection:

Pre-Modern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First Century Water Management, with Ruth A. Morgan, Radical History Review, vol.116, spring 2013, pp. 105–129. DOI: 10.17613/M64B7G

Abstract:

In the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear progression of ideas, from the primitive and magical giving way to modern religions and then to rational and empiricist sciences, we suggest a fluidity of hydrological thought whereby the sacred and the profane eddy and flow together over time. This article attempts to navigate these currents through an examination of how Western religious and scientific, spiritual and instrumentalist, worlds of water have together guided hydrological imaginings and interventions for more than two thousand years. It specifically analyzes the deployment of these imaginings to frame efforts to control water and waterscapes, as well as bodies and societies since antiquity. The interactions of these worlds of water have produced, we contend, a vast reservoir of influence upon water management in the twenty-first century.

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Turnhout, Belgium

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Honourable Mention (distinction)

In recognition of an outstanding thesis, Board Members nominate the thesis for an Honourable Mention in the Board of the Graduate Research School Dean's List.

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Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters Legal, UK

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Funded by an Australian Research Council Postgraduate Fellowship (fees and stipend) and a competitive University of Western Australia Top-Up Scholarship (6 months)

In this thesis, the imagery of water serves as a point of focus for an inquiry into the composition of medieval abstract space. As a ubiquitous element of human life with distinct properties and connotations across time, water touches, and has ever touched upon, both what is historically and culturally unique and what is ongoing within environmental imagination. This study examines the significance and the deployment of environmental imagery in the composition, narration, and recollection of organised thought in the Middle Ages.

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University of York

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European Commission Societal Challenge bid (funded by Enterprise Ireland), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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Trinity College Dublin

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