I am a historian and writer with recent work in The New Republic and Smithsonian Magazine.

As a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, I coordinate Brown 2026: Marking 250 Years of American Democracy, manage the Brown 2026 Class of 1976 Oral History project, and teach a first-year seminar called American Revolution in Popular Culture.

I am writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture from American Girl to Hamilton for St. Martin’s Press. From 2026 to 2027, I am a Fellow for the Study of 20th Century American Popular Culture at the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, as well as a Yearlong Hybrid Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.

My first book, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, received an honorable mention from the Grateful American Book Prize in 2025. From 2023 to 2024, I was a Cokie Roberts Fellow at the National Archives Foundation and a Rubenstein Center Research Fellow at the White House Historical Association.

I have a PhD in 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.”