I have been an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia in the Department of History since 2015, but live in Northern Ireland.
I hold an M.A. in Seventeenth-Century Studies from the University of Durham and a Ph.D. in historical theology from the University of Cambridge. This doctoral research into Reformed theology in Elizabethan and Jacobean England was later published as 'English Hypothetical Universalism' (Eerdmans, 2007). I am also interested in Reformed conciliarism and have published research on aspects of the Westminster Assembly and the Synod of Dordt.
My current research interest is in the Walter Travers Papers at Trinity College Dublin, and I have jointly edited two annotated, critical editions of some of these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscripts for Oxford University Press ('The Puritans on Independence', 2017; 'Reformed Government', 2022).
Serving at Union since 2020, I have supervised postgraduates studying the doctrine of God, Westminster divines (including Samuel Rutherford), Richard Hooker, and Jonathan Edwards. I welcome research students in the areas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed theology, English puritanism, Scottish and Irish covenanters, and the history of presbyterianism in the British Isles.
As well as supervising research in historical theology, I also serve at Union as an Adjunct Lecturer, particularly in presbyterian polity.