Biography
I am a historian of childhood, incarceration, and medicine in the US Progressive Era and interwar period. I am especially interested in how social panics are enacted through efforts to manage children’s behavior, particularly girls’ behavior. My dissertation interrogates impact of World War I on girls’ carceral institutions, tracing efforts to police and manage adolescent girls from WWI through the New Deal. Situating girls as key actors in these transformations, I explore how girls made sense of the institutions policing or incarcerating them and how they negotiated new behavior standards with the social workers, judges, police, and military officials trying to manage them.
Education
M.A., History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2023
B.A., English & Education Studies, Vassar College, 2018
Field
- U.S./North American History
- Gender and Women’s History
MA Title
“‘She Tells These Stories’: Masturbation, Sexual Violence, and Girl Delinquency in the Milwaukee Juvenile Court, 1901-1929”
Working Dissertation Title
“Bad Girls, Great War: How World War One Changed American Girls’ Carceral Lives”
Selected Publications
- “’The Policy of Secrecy’: Parents, Administrators, and Spies Investigating Sexual Violence Before UWPD,” Siftings, University of Wisconsin Center for Campus History, March 18, 2024. https://campushistory.wisc.edu/the-policy-of-secrecy-parents-administrators-and-spies-investigating-sexual-violence-before-uwpd/
- “Becoming Natural: Navigating Nonbinary Parenthood,” Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies, Volume 44, no. 3-4, Summer-Fall 2023, Review of Krys Malcolm Belc, The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood. Counterpoint, 2021. 304 pp. illus. bibl. $26.00, ISBN 978-1640094383.
- “Rejecting an Individualistic Trans Liberation: Hil Malatino’s Side Affects,” Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies, Volume 44, no. 1-2, Winter-Spring 2023, Review of Hil Malatino, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 224 pp. notes. index. pap., $21.95, ISBN 978-1517912093.
Selected Awards
- Campus-Wide Early Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2024
- Kate Everest Levi Second-Year Paper Prize, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2023
Professional Affiliations
- American Association for the History of Medicine
- Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- American Historical Association
Courses Taught as TA
- History 102: U.S. History 1865 to the Present
- History of Science 212: Bodies, Healers, Disease: Introduction to the History of Medicine
- History of Science 211: Food Histories from Farm to Table
Courses Taught as Instructor
History of Science 212: Bodies, Healers, Disease: Introduction to the History of Medicine