Education.

Doctorate of Philosophy in History, Department of History, Rutgers University,   New Brunswick, NJ      2011                                                        Fields:
  • Major: Women and Gender History  
  • Minor: American History  
  • Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies 
Dissertation:                                                                                                                                                                                                         “Where Angels Fear To Tread:” Feminism, Sex and the problem of SM,   1969-1993                                                                                          Committee:  
  • Dr. Nancy Hewitt, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Rutgers University  
  • Dr. Seth Koven, Graduate Chair, History Department, Rutgers University  
  • Dr. Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University  
  • Dr. Alice Echols, Associate Professor of English & Gender Studies,   University of Southern California  
Master of Arts, American History, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 1999                                                                                                        Bachelor of Arts, American History, Political Science and Education, Clark University,  Worcester, MA 1998
Publications.

“’Feminism Meets Fist-Fucking’: The Impact of SM on the U.S. Anti-porn Movement.” Invited chapter in the anthology, “Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s” edited by Drs. Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub.  

Research Grants & Scholarships.

  • Mellon Summer Research Award, Summer 2010  
  • Enk Research Award, Rutgers University Graduate School, Spring 2007  
  • Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Research Grant Recipient, 2006  
  • National Women’s Studies Association Lesbian Caucus Scholarship Award Recipient, 2006  
  • Special Opportunities Research Grant Recipient, Rutgers University, to attend Oral History Institute, Kenyon College, June 2005  

Teaching Experience.


Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, January 2012-present
Assistant Director, Iowa BioSciences Advantage Program, University of Iowa, October 2011-July 2012
​Learning Community Coordinator, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University,   Fall 2008-Present
Lecturer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick & Newark, NJ  
  •  “Art and Science of Happiness,” Spring 2011 & Fall 2010   
  • “Women on the Fringe,” Spring 2011  
  •  “American Sexuality,” Summer 2010   
  • “History on Film,” Summer 2010, Spring 2008 & Summer 2007   
  • “Gendered Agency,” Spring 2010 & Fall 2009   
  • “History of Women in the US, 1877-Present,” Summer 2009 & Summer 2008    
  • “The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture,” Spring 2009 & Fall 2008 
  • “History of Sexuality,” Spring 2008 & 2007   “Culture of the 1960s,” Summer 2008    
  • “Women, Culture and Society,” (W&GS 101) Fall 2003 & Spring 2004    
Participant, “Teaching with Technology,” Teaching Assistance Project, certificate completed May 2008                                                                 Adjunct Professor
  • San Francisco State University, “Women in American History and Culture,”  Summer 2007    
  • Seton Hall University,“Western Civilization I,” Fall 2006    
Project Coordinator, “Shaping a Life” Douglass College, 2003-2004                                                                                                                     Teaching Assistant   
  • “LGBT History,” Spring 2010, Professor Alice Echols, Rutgers University  
  • “Race and Ethnicity in American History,” and “Civil Rights Movement,” Professor Janette Greenwood, Clark University, Fall 2001/Spring 2002  

Scholarly Presentations & Activities.

  • Presenter, “Everyday Feminism,” National Women’s Studies Association, November 2012
  • Curator’s Tour, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History of the American Historical Association, Tour of the Leather Archives & Museum and “A Room of Her Own,” January 2012
  • Presenter, “Leatherwomen’s History,” Iowa State/Cuffs, November 2011
  • Presenter and Organizer, Panel:  “Leatherwomen's Histories: International Perspectives from  Academic and Public Historians,” Berkshire Conference for the History of Women,  Amherst, MA, June 2011     
  • Presenter, "Strange Bedfellows: Lesbian Feminism and Sadomasochism," Lesbians in the Seventies Conference, CLAGS, New York City, NY, October 2010  
  • Participant, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 2009-10 & 2010-2011  
  • Participant, Espoir Conference on the state of Leather History, Leather Archives and Museum,   Chicago, IL, February 2009  
  • Presenter, Research Briefing, Schlesinger Library at Harvard, December 2007  Presenter, “Difficult Women: Successful Public Outreach for ‘Problematic’ Women’s Collections,” Society of American Archivist Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL,   August 2007  
  • Presenter and Organizer, “Historicizing Post-War US Lesbian Identities,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2007

 Public History Presentations & Activities.

  • Historian, Women’s Leather History Project of the Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago, IL, June 2011-present. Responsible for collection development, community outreach, fundraising and public presentations.
  • Curator, “A Room of Her Own,” Women’s Leather History Project exhibit at the Leather  Archives in Museum, Opening May 2011 
  • Presenter, “Feminism and the history of the Women’s Leather community,” Philadelphia Leather  Pride Night, November 2010  
  •  Presenter and Organizer, “A Historical Overview of the Women’s Leather community,” and  “The Early Women’s Leather Community,” International Ms Leather, San Francisco, May 2008  & 2009  
  •  Presenter, “Leatherwomen’s History,” Leatherfest, New York, November 2008  
  •  Curator, “Women of Leather” Traveling Museum Exhibit, Leather Archives and Museum, June  2006