I’m a white settler historian currently living on Peoria homelands in Springfield, IL. I’m employed as a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with American Conservation Experience, specializing in creating accessible and engaging online women’s history content. Through this fellowship, I have worked with the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Where Women Made History initiative and the National Historic Landmarks Program on projects that nuance and deepen public understanding of American women’s histories.

I earned a PhD in History with minors in Heritage Studies and Public History and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2023. My dissertation, “‘I Hear That God Saith Work’: Mortality and Labor in Massachusetts, 1619-1690,” analyzed the relationship between religion and labor in seventeenth-century Massachusetts using methods drawn from Indigenous, queer, and disability studies. In 2022, I published an article based on my dissertation research in Early American Studies.

My research has appeared in online blogs including Nursing Clio, Early American Studies Miscellany, Insurrect!, and All of Us.

I’ve collaborated on essays for The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible.

As a public historian, I’ve worked on projects like Women’s History Illuminated, a project that teaches women’s histories through the power of place; the National Register and National Historic Landmarks’ 2024 Jewish Heritage Month article series; REPAIR: Disability Heritage Collective’s mapping and interpretation of disability histories; and history-based Ethnic Studies lesson plans for high- and middle-school students in Minnesota.