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 it was a finalist for 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 female millennial pop culture and the American Revolution.

My research has been supported by a 2026-2027 Hybrid Fellowship from the International Center for Jefferson Studies, a 2023-2024 Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation, and a 2023-2024 Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship from 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.”