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