Profile

I am a historian of women, gender, and sexuality. My research explores women's participation in popular physiology in the antebellum U.S. and their engagements with gendered and racialized notions of sexuality.

My general teaching interests include:

• women and gender in world history
• women and gender in U.S. history
• sexualities in world history
• sexualities in U.S. history

More specific teaching topics may include:

• gendered bodily practices
• gender in crowds
• sex and dissent
• seduction and licentiousness as political themes
• gender and sexual minorities before the twentieth century
• history of sex work and sexual commerce