I am a writer, teacher, and historian of the United States.

My first book, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, was published by Kensington, and received an honorable mention from the Grateful American Book Prize in 2025.

As a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, I coordinate Brown 2026: Marking 250 Years of American Democracy, and I teach a freshman seminar called American Revolution in Popular Culture.

I am currently writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture from American Girl to Hamilton.

My research has been supported by the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the National Archives Foundation, and the White House Historical Association.

I have a BA in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, MA in public history from American University, and PhD in history from American University, with a dissertation on American nineteenth-century religion-state relations through the lens of Sunday mail delivery.

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