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First Name
Rachel
Last Name
Singer
Country
United States
State
DC District of Columbia
Affiliation
Georgetown University
Website URL
https://www.rachelbsinger.com
Keywords
medieval, Britain, Wales, Gaul, plague, environment, gender, Europe, disease, climate
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PhD
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About Me

Rachel Singer studies the environmental and gender history of early medieval northern Europe, particularly Britain and Merovingian Gaul. Her work combines rigorous textual criticism with insights from paleoscientific and archaeological data. She has published on North African plague, a sixth-century Frankish nuns’ rebellion, and the introduction of first-pandemic plague to Britain. Her current projects focus on disaster in Gildas’ De excidio Britonum, and on infectious disease in first-millennium Britain.

Singer received her MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge in 2022. She is currently a PhD candidate at Georgetown University.

Recent Publications

“Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain.” The English Historical Review (2024): ceae204.

“Gregory’s Forgotten Rebel: The Portrayal of Basina by Gregory of Tours and its Implications.” Early Medieval Europe 30, no. 2 (2022): 185-208.

“The Black Death in the Maghreb: A Call to Action.” Journal of Medieval Worlds 2, no. 3-4 (2020): 115-23.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United Kingdom, Ireland, France
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, England, France, Ireland, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval
Expertise by Topic
Environment, Gender, Medicine