Academic Work

Education

PhD in History, University College London (1997)
‘Women of the Church in Early Medieval Ireland c. AD 450-1150’ under Prof Wendy Davies

MA in Celtic Studies, with distinction, University College London (1991) 
History, Archaeology, Old Irish Language,  Medieval Hiberno-Latin, Paleography    

BA in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania (1987)
Focus on religion in politics of non-Western cultures

Academic Work

Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions Through Harvard, Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative . Scholar in Residence  (2025)

Treadwell’s Lecture Programme. Founder and Programming Director,  (2003–Present)

University of Exeter, Department of Philosophy. Subject of Study, Trance practices in initiatory Wicca, conducted by Dr Jonathan Hill. His findings published in  “I am the Gracious Goddess: Wiccan Analytic Theology,” Journal of Analytic Theology (2020)

London School of Economics and INFORM, Conference Organiser Satanic Abuse Scare Evening Conference (2016)

University of Surrey. Co-founder, Magic-Language-Society Network (2016)

Research Fellow, Queens University of Belfast (1999-2000)

Lecturer, Medieval and Religious History, St Mary’s University (1997–2001)

Assistant Lecturer and Course Tutor, Medieval and Religious History, St Mary’s University (1991-1997)

Lectures, Presentations

Harvard Centre for the Study of World Religions. Public Lecture on Folk Magic  (2025)

Harvard Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. Seminar Presentation on Folk Magic  (2025)

King’s College London, INFORM Annual Seminar, Lecture “Making Witches: Transmission of Wicca Before, During and After the Era of the Self-Help Paperback” (2021)

Harvard Divinity School Animism Reading Group. Guest Presentation (2021)

University of London School of Advanced Studies, Rare Book Collector’s Seminar. Guest Lecture and Seminar on Esoteric Books (2019)

New York University, Occult Humanities Conference, “Bohemian Occult Subculture in Britain’s 1890s: How Artists, Actors, and Writers Made the Golden Dawn” (2016)

Queen Mary, University of London, Conference Altered Consciousness 1918-1980. Keynote Lecture “Witchcraft and Women’s Power in the 1950s” (2013)

Guest Talks for Students

Paganism and Wicca talks and lectures to students as part of their degree courses. Florida State University in London; University College London, University of Exeter, Oberlin College, St. Mary’s University, Eton College, and others