Personal Statement:
I am a doctoral candidate in UCSB’s History program working with Professor Erika Rappaport on Modern European History. My research examines the “social life” of the cervical cap contraceptive as a commodity, tracing its circulation throughout Britain and its empire from 1918-1939. My work blurs the boundaries of medicine and commerce, complicates conceptions of “female entrepreneurship,” and interrogates nationalistic constructions of reproductive “fitness” in the early twentieth century.
I am teaching for the Writing Program for the 2020-2021 academic year. Please feel free to email me with any questions or to say hello!
Dissertation Title:
Commodifying Contraception: A Political Economy of Sex in Interwar Britain
Selected Publications:
“Consumerism and Sexuality: The Business of Pleasure,” in Cambridge World History of Sexualities, Vol. 4, forthcoming
“Mrs. Mary Cornwall Juilliard,” in Women and Social Movements in the United States, Encyclopedia of the Female Suffrage Movement in the United States, 2020
Courses Taught:
I have taught or assisted the following courses in UCSB’s History Department and Writing Program:
124B Gender and Sexuality in 20th Century Britain
4B History of Western Civilization
4C History of Western Civilization
2A Ancient World Civilizations
17A Early American History
Writ 2 Introduction to Academic Writing
Writ 501 Writing Pedagogy and Methodology TA Training Course
Awards & Professional Activities:
2020 — GSA Excellence in Teaching Award
2020 — NACBS Dissertation Year Fellowship
2020 — Ken Moure and Sara Norquay Graduate Student Award
2020 — Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant
2020, 2019, 2018 — History Associates Fellowship
2019 — Borchard Foundation Fellowship for European Studies
2019 — Patricia Cohen Fellowship
2018 — J. Bruce Anderson Memorial Fellowship for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the History Department
2017 — Lawrence Badash Prize for Best Paper in the History of Science and Medicine