Academic Career
- Since 08/2023: Assistant Professor of History, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
- 2018-2023: Assistant Professor of History, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, USA
- 2017-2018: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
- 2017: PhD, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- 2013-2014: Research Fellowship, Fulbright Program, Free University of Berlin
- 2012: MA, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- 2010: BA, History, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Research Interests
- Modern European History
- German History
- Central and Eastern European History
- Gender History
- Legal History
Publications
- 2026: “Protesting Patriarchy: The Mobilization of the Bourgeois Women’s Movement against the Civil Code, 1874-1900” (Journal of Women’s History, forthcoming)
- 2024: “Martha Arendsee: The Right to Motherhood,” in Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights in East Central Europe, eds. Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hȋncu, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, and Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc (Central European University Press).
- 2023: Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press)
- 2020: “Creating Postfascist Families: Reforming Family Law and Gender Roles in Postwar East and West Germany,” in Central European History 53, no. 2, 414-431.
- 2019: “Children, Church, and Rights: West and East German Protests against Family Law Reforms in the 1950s,” in Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements, eds. Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Brühöfener (New York: Berghahn Books), 115-135.