I am an author, book critic, and historian.

As a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, I coordinate Brown 2026: Marking 250 Years of American Democracy, manage the Class of 1976 oral history project, and teach a first-year seminar titled American Revolution in Popular Culture. Previously, I was a teacher at the Madeira School and a lecturer at American University.

I am writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s Press. My first book, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, 2025), received an honorable mention from the Grateful American Book Prize and will be available in paperback in 2027.

My research has been supported by the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the National Archives Foundation, and the White House Historical Association.

Recently, my writing has been published by The New Republic, Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, Slate, and Ms. Magazine.

I have a PhD in history and MA in public history from American University and a BA in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College.

Despite being from and living in Rhode Island, I call Washington, DC, “home.”

My books are represented by Dani Segelbaum at ARC Literary Management.