I’m Dan Waterfield, a historian and research consultant based in Auckland.

I hold a PhD in eighteenth-century history from the University of Cambridge, where I wrote and published on religion and Franco-British identity in Frances Burney.

After Cambridge, I held a postdoctoral fellowship in digital humanities at the University of York. My archival work has taken me from the British Library in London to the Vatican archives, from Harvard to the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

British by birth, I’ve lived in France, Bulgaria, and spent extended periods in the States, Italy, Germany and Canada.

Alongside research, i’ve spent the last five years working as a software and data engineer — building pipelines, cleaning complex datasets, and helping organisations turn scattered information into usable knowledge.

tl;dr: I think at the intersection of technology and the humanities. I can teach you how to learn, how to remember, and how to write with clarity. I’m as happy reading latin as i am writing python — usually with a cat nearby.