I hold a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University and a B.A. in American studies from Barnard College. After teaching U.S. history of gender and sexuality for a few years, I decided to more fully pursue my love of intellectual inquiry and the written word by becoming an academic editor. Through the diverse projects that have come my way, I have learned more than I ever thought I would about topics like Bolivian film, nineteenth-century oil refining, and Middle Eastern performance art, as well as long-time favorites like revolutionary Black feminism. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for me!
I am also engaged in my own research as an independent scholar, and continue to publish, consult, and present at academic conferences. My work focuses on butch-femme lesbian culture in the United States between World War II and the women’s liberation movement.
I live in the Philadelphia area with my partner, three children, and two cats. My pronouns are she/her.
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Select Publications
Author: “Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Butch-Femme Fashion and Queer Legibility in New York City, 1945-1969,” Feminist Studies 42, no. 3 (2016): 604-631.
Contributing Author: “Femme Histories Roundtable, Part I & Part II,” Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality (peer-reviewed), February 16 & 23, 2017.
Book Reviewer: Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier, Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 2 (May 2015): 314-316.
Honors & Awards
2018 Honorable Mention, Audre Lorde Prize, Committee on LGBT History for “Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Butch-Femme Fashion and Queer Legibility in New York City, 1945-1969,” Feminist Studies 42, no. 3 (2016): 604-631.
2017 Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize, Coordinating Council for Women in History for “Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Butch-Femme Fashion and Queer Legibility in New York City, 1945-1969,” Feminist Studies 42, no. 3 (2016): 604-631.
2012-2013 Rutgers Institute for Research on Women Graduate Fellowship, “Trans Studies: Beyond Homonormativities,” Rutgers University
2012 Dissertation Grant, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2012 Summer Research Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2011-2012 Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Graduate Fellowship, “Narratives of Power,” Rutgers University
2010 Summer Research Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation