About

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I am an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the History and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments. I have experience in nonprofit, corporate, and academic institutions where I have designed and managed projects, published findings, spoken at public gatherings, and successfully applied for grants. I have acted as a mentor, supervisor, interviewer, fundraiser, researcher, writer, editor, advocate, and teacher.

I specialize in the history of transnational women’s social movements in the late twentieth century. My research focuses on women’s rights, human rights, environmental justice, and anti-imperialist activism.

My first book Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era (University of North Carolina Press), explored the interactions between women antiwar activists in the United States and their counterparts in Vietnam and was chosen as a 2017 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE magazine.

I am currently writing a monograph that traces the genealogy of transnational feminist praxis in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through collective biography. Thanks to generous funding, I have conducted multi-continental research to bring together the stories of Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021), Indian economist Devaki Jain (1933- ), and reproductive justice activist Loretta Ross (1953- ).

My work has been recognized by the Organization of American Historians and the American Association of University Women. I have received financial support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Sally Bingham Center at Duke University, the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, and the Swarthmore College Peace Collection at Swarthmore College, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and the Rhode Island Foundation, among others. 

I have published articles, reviews, blogs, and op-eds on a variety of platforms including the Washington Post, have been interviewed for podcasts, and have given invited lectures in a number of venues. I also regularly post to my substack, History, She Wrote. 

At the University of Rhode Island, I enjoy teaching on women’s rights, social justice, environmental justice, and human rights in courses that consider gender, race, and class central categories of analysis, and I regularly oversee the creation of student projects that use a variety of media to reach wider audiences to discuss what we’re learning in the classroom.