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My book project, An Archive of Girlhood, 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 push to mark the 2020 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 �������ϲ�, 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 .

An Archive of Girlhood: The Convent Academy in Catholic America. Book manuscript under review

"The Value of Women’s Things," multi-media essay, solicited for Collecting Religion, eds. James S. Bielo (Northwestern University) and Matthew Hayes (Duke University). Digital platform launching Fall 2024.  

"Catholicism in Black and White: First Communion Portrait Photography in Puerto Rican  New York, 1940-1960." Article in preparation.

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

" (Nerinx, KY),"  series, American Religion journal (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 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

• BA, Barnard College
• AM/PhD, University of Chicago 

• 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," �������ϲ� (2018)
• Bicentennial Projects grant for teaching and learning, "Coeducation comes to �������ϲ�: Campus History as U.S. Women’s History," �������ϲ� (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)

• "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)