I received my BA in History and Gender Studies from Dickinson College. I earned my MA and PhD from the University of Iowa in History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies where I specialized in queer and gender history, histories of race, historical memory, and disability history. My current research is motivated by an interdisciplinary engagement with critical race studies, memory studies, and queer history. My current book project, Feeling Historical: Race, Sexology, and the Making of Queer History, 1890-1920, examines the origins of U.S. queer history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its entanglements with racialized sciences like sexology.
I teach courses on U.S. cultural history, queer history, gender history, disability history, and historical methodologies. My teaching is closely informed by my anti-racist pedagogy and commitment to focusing on diverse cultures, identities, and structures of power.
Education
- B.A., Dickinson College
- M.A. and Ph.D., University of Iowa