Author: Harvard University

I am a researcher at Queen’s University, Belfast. I am a project scholar for Livingstone Online, and am currently working on a critical digital edition of, the book once described as being owned by every household in the UK but read by none, Missionary Travels (1857). I previously worked on the David Livingstone Multi-Spectral digital imaging project. My research focuses on 19th century European exploration in Africa and India, and digital cultural creation and curation. I study transnational influences in disparate cultures in the long nineteenth century: from David Livingstone’s phonetic transcriptions of indigenous central and southern African languages to Haggard’s mythologizing of Zulu history, how cultures interacted with each other and how that can be traced within the archive. I also look at areas of interaction: I am interested in what is happening in the space between technical (or digital) archives and the actual physical archive. I have previously worked as both an archivist and a librarian.