About

I am an American historian who studies social histories of gender, labor, and urban reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My first book, Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, is available now! I’m currently researching a second book project on women’s temperance activism and police reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

I am a public historian based in Austin, TX supporting local initiatives to preserve historic building and landscapes of central Texas. You can read about my student-led public history projects in Texas here. My previous public history experience includes museum education, historic preservation, and public programming through positions with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Architecture Center.

I teach U.S. history and public history courses as an Assistant Professor of Practice in the History Department at Texas State University. You can visit my faculty page here.