About Me

I am the Archivist for the Maryland Province Archives at Georgetown University’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections, where I am in charge of reprocessing materials related to the Jesuit presence in North America from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Among many other things, this collection documents Jesuit slaveholding practices, as well as Georgetown University’s involvement in the trade of enslaved people. You can read more about my position, and the Maryland Province Archives, here.

In May 2020, I received my PhD in history from Brandeis University, where I studied the history of gender, sexuality, and print culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.

My dissertation, “Motherhood Writ Large: Transgressive Maternity and American Popular Print, 1768-1868,” examined the stories of women who violated the legal and social norms of motherhood and the robust popular debate that their actions generated. My work has been supported by the American Antiquarian Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. For the 2017-2018 academic year, I was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Department of History.

I also hold an MLS with an archival concentration from the University of Maryland's History and Library Science program, and I have worked at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Newberry Library for the Humanities, and University of Maryland's Special Collections in Performing Arts.