Dissertation:
“Take Back the Mic: The Rise of Feminist Stand-Up Comedy in American Culture.” The University of Chicago, Department of History | 2023
Publications:
“Massachusetts & the Battle for Reproductive Rights: A Surprising Yet Pivotal Legacy.” Massachusetts Women’s History Center | 2024
“How Boston Feminists Literally Wrote the Book on Women’s Health.” Massachusetts Women’s History Center | 2024
“The Trailblazing Women of Stand-Up Comedy.” National Women’s History Museum | 2021
Digital Exhibits & Collections:
“Savvy Strategists & Innovative Advocates: The Story of Massachusetts’ Suffragists.” Massachusetts Women’s History Center | 2024
“Deans Collection.” Chicago Unbound, The University of Chicago Law School | 2020-2022
“Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina.” National Women’s History Museum | 2020
Conference & Workshop Papers:
“Private Topics, Public Laughs: 1990s Feminist Comedy.”
New-York Historical Society Early Career Workshop | December 2021
Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference | October 2021
“From Blue Bawds to Wonder Women: The Origins of Feminist Comedy.”
Western Association of Women Historians, 50th Anniversary Conference, Portland, OR | April 2019
“A Stage of Their Own: The Feminist Comedy Circuit, 1974-1994.”
Humor in America, 2018 American Humor Studies Association Conference, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL | July 2018
Popular Culture Association National Conference, Indianapolis, IN | March 2018
“‘Women’s Lip’: Feminist Comedy and the Women’s Liberation Movement.”
Parody, Protest, or Performance? Mischief and Humor in History, Concordia University, Montreal, QC | April 2017
Public Presentations:
Curator Virtual Tour, “Gamechangers: Women and Sports.” National Women’s History Museum | February 2022
Curator Virtual Tour, “Women in the Olympics.” National Women’s History Museum | January 2022
Curator Virtual Tour, “The Third Wave of Feminism.” National Women’s History Museum | October 2021
Curator Virtual Tour, “Harriet Tubman.” National Women’s History Museum | February 2021
Curator Virtual Tour, “First But Not the Last: Women Who Ran for President.” National Women’s History Museum | October 2020
Past Research Projects:
“‘Never, Never Treated As A Human Being’: Marriage and Personal Identity in Female Literary Humor of the 1920’s.” Seminar Paper, University of Chicago | 2014
“Going to Work for the Sake of the Home: Advice to Working Wives During the Great Depression.” Seminar Paper, University of Chicago | 2013
“The Voice of Feminist Wit in the Women’s Suffrage Movement: Alice Duer Miller’s ‘Are Women People?’” Thesis, Yale College | 2009
Awarded the Edwin W. Small Prize for American History by Yale College