Education

• Ph.D., History, The College of William and Mary, 2013
• M.A., History, The College of William and Mary, 2004
• B.A., History, Smith College, 2002

Research Interest

• U.S. Women’s History , Cultural History, Activism and Social Movements , Gender Studies , History of Education

Representative Scholarly Activity

• “‘Demand Something to Fulfill that Need’: Liberal Arts Education, Student Consumers, and the Dilemma of Modern Womanhood at the Elite Women’s Colleges, 1915-1935,” Virginia Social Sciences Association Conference, April 2014.
• “Putting Away Childish Things: Educated Womanhood and the Decline of ‘Crush Culture’ at the Elite Women’s Colleges, 1890-1920,” Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2014.
• “‘A Threat, Against the Liberal Education of Women:’ Domestic Science, Vocational Training, and the Elite Women’s Colleges, 1890-1920,” History of Education Society Conference, November 2012.
• “‘Not Enough…for Really Intelligent Women:’ Domestic Science and the Elite Women’s Colleges, 1890-1920,” American Educational Research Association Conference, April 2012.
• “‘The Convent at Saint Lyons:’ Women’s Higher Education in the Era of Manifest Destiny,” Massachusetts Historical Society, July 2011.
• “‘Those wild, perverted female Bolsheviks:’ Popular Fiction and the ‘Radicalization’ of Women’s Colleges in the Interwar Era,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, April 2011.
• “Something More than a Man’s Education: The Seven Sister Colleges and the Liberal Arts, 1915-1930,” Virginia Humanities Conference, March 2010.

Honors, Awards and Grants

• New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, 2011-12
• Graduate Fellow, The Lemon Project, College of William and Mary, 2011-12
• Preceptor, History Writing Research Center, College of William and Mary, 2007-08; Spring 2009
• Research Fellow, New York Public Library, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2007