Hailing originally from Arlington, VA, I graduated from Manhattan College in 2023 with a BA in International Studies, History, and Religious Studies. I pursued an interdisciplinary approach to historical research, with interests orbiting the body, bodies, and the ways they are imagined, represented, and regulated.
My senior thesis, “Exhibition, Eroticism, and Moral Reform: The 1894 Moralizing Campaign Against Tableaux Vivants in London Music Halls,” examined public responses to costume technologies that simulated nudity onstage and the campaign to impose municipal sanctions on theaters and music halls. Drawing on theories of subjectivity, projection, and performer-audience relations, I explored how moral meanings were constructed around the body and how perceptions of eroticism could generate public panic. In 2022, I received the Branigan Scholars Research Grant to support archival research into British reformers’ interventions around sex work and human trafficking in interwar Egypt. More broadly, my work has focused on discourse, relationality, reform movements, and health.
For five years, I have worked in NYC public school classrooms through the Museum of Tolerance’s Combat Hate outreach project, facilitating workshops on anti-racism and online hate. This work deepened my investment in connecting historical scholarship to contemporary life and in understanding how historical awareness shapes civic worlds.
While the body is central to my research, I approach the concept by linking how discourse, narrative, and story are determinant and definitional to any understanding of things corporeal. In graduate study, I hope to expand my historical range and methodological toolkit while continuing to understand the body as a site where power, policy, and culture intersect.
Beyond the stacks, I’m likely slinging drinks to restaurant-goers at a local café, hunting down a lost stitch in my knitting, or emerging from a deep dive to prattle on about the latest narrative podcast I’ve discovered. I’m excited to join the cohort, learn your stories, and make some history!
