About

I am a social historian of American women, gender, labor, and urban reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I published by first book, Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, with University of Chicago Press in 2025. My second book project (in progress) explores how women temperance activists reformed American policing in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

I am also 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.

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