About

I am an American urban historian who researches gender, labor, and reform in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I published by first book, Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025 as part of its Historical Studies of Urban America series. My second book project (in progress) explores how women temperance activists reformed jails, prisons, and police departments to create new gendered carceral spaces between 1874 and the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.

I am a practicing public historian based in Austin, TX where I support local initiatives to preserve historic building and cultural landscapes of central Texas. You can read about my student-led public history projects here.

I currently serve as Chair of the Public History Committee and Director of Internships for the Texas Center for Public History at Texas State University. You can visit my faculty page here.