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BA, Barnard College
MA, University of Chicago
PhD, University of Chicago

My first book, An Archive of Girlhood (under contract with UNC Press), argues for the centrality of young women's narratives in U.S. Catholic history and explores the print, visual, and material culture of the nineteenth-century Catholic convent academy. As I think through the categories of girlhood and youth, I am also beginning to write with my own family history to explore visual histories of .

Inspired by the recent push to mark the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, I have been engaged in speaking and writing projects that assess the state of women's history in New York-area museums, archives, and monuments, and the intersection of women's and gender history with initiatives. I consult on digital history, collections building, and exhibitions projects, and I am always eager to connect with students interested in pursuing public history and museum opportunities. With Elizabeth Marlowe (Department of Art), I have recently developed a curatorial seminar based at a working museum, the  in Oneida, New York.

Prior to coming to ��ݮ��Ƶ, I taught at Bryn Mawr College, where, as Director of the Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education, I helped develop the collections portal "" and mentored working on .

Book
An Archive of Girlhood: The Convent Academy in Catholic America (forthcoming).

Journal Articles
"'Catholicism is Getting to Be the Style': White Women and the Making of Catholic Culture at the Catholic Summer School of America, 1892-1914," Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 32.2 (Summer 2022): 236-266. 

"" (single authored) and "In Conversation: eBay Method and the Study of Religion," with Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, James Bielo, and Kate Dugan, Material Religion 17.5 (December 2021): 652-661. 

"The Politics of Women’s History: Collecting for the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in New York State," Collections: A Journal for Museums and Archives Professionals 14.3 (Summer 2018): 331-350. 

"'Have You Ever Read?': Imagining Women, Bibles, and Religious Print in Nineteenth-Century America," U.S. Catholic Historian 31.3 (Summer 2013): 1-21. 

Book Chapters
"Putting Women on a Pedestal: Monument Debates in the Era of the Suffrage Centennial," in , eds. Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), 395-412.

"Religion, Race, and Sexuality," in , eds. Kathryn Gin Lum and Paul Harvey (Oxford University Press, 2018), 96-109.

Online Publications / Digital History
"," essay for Collecting Religion, eds. James S. Bielo and Matthew Hayes (2024)

"Picturing Catholic Girlhood: Religion, Portrait Photography, and Building Latina/o/x Collections," (2022)

" (Nerinx, KY)," photo essay for the series, American Religion (2020)

"Summer Camp: American Religion and Recreation in the Great Outdoors," (2019)

“Taking Stock of Gender History at AHA19,” , American Historical Association (2019)

"," review of Kyle B. Roberts, Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (University of Chicago Press, 2016) for  (2017)

Exhibition Catalogue
, co-authored with Katherine Turk (Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2009)

Recent Book Reviews
A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood, edited by Tiffany R. Isselhardt. The Public Historian 46.2 (May 2024): 194-196. 

A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American by Kathleen Sprows Cummings. Journal of American History 107.2 (September 2020): 507-508. 

Additional reviews in Women and American Social Movements, Journal of the Early Republic, The Hudson River Valley Review, American Catholic Studies, The Journal of Religion, New York History, and Western Historical Quarterly.

• HIST 199 History Workshop
• HIST 211 Women's Rights in U.S. History
• HIST 213 Women in the City
• HIST 304 Sex and Sexualities in U.S. History
• MUSE 310 Curating Public History: Utopia, Sex and Silver at the Oneida Community Mansion House
• HIST 313 Upstate History
• HIST 400 Senior Seminar / HIST 490 Honors Seminar
• CORE 111 Core Conversations

• Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of North American Religions, Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School (2019-2020)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2019)
• Mother Theodore Guerin Research Grant, University of Notre Dame Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (2019)
• Upstate Institute faculty research fellowship for "Women at the Catholic Summer School of America, 1891-1911," ��ݮ��Ƶ University (2018)
• Bicentennial Projects grant for teaching and learning, "Coeducation comes to ��ݮ��Ƶ: Campus History as U.S. Women’s History," ��ݮ��Ƶ University (2017)
• Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow, Bryn Mawr College (2014-2016)
• Junior Fellowship, Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School (2013-2014)
• Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, University of Chicago (2012-2013)
• Phi Beta Kappa (elected Spring 2001)

• "New Exhibit Explores Oneida Community Mansion House From the Student Perspective," ��ݮ��Ƶ news (May 29, 2025)
• "Catholic Kitsch: Why Simple Religious Art is Actually Great," (February 10, 2025)
• "It Was Once a Utopia. Now It's the Site of MUSE 310 A," (Autumn 2023)
• "History in Action During the Pandemic,"  (Spring 2021)
• "Museum Conversations: Documenting the Pandemic" in (February 26, 2021)
• "Scholar Spotlight," (March 2021)
• "Harvard Divinity School Researcher Visits Maple Mount," (November 2019)
•  (March 2019)
•  (January 2019)
•  (February 2017)
• "Online Portal Showcases Women's College Experiences,"  (August 2016)
• "Many Women Paved the Way for Hillary Clinton,"  (July 24, 2016)
• "Historians Find Fruitful Terrain: Their Own Institutions,"  (June 21, 2016)