Through my writing, I have sought to recover neglected aspects of feminism’s history. I have been especially interested in exploring feminism’s unlikely intersections with fields ostensibly hostile to it: namely, science and humor. My earlier research investigated how German feminists engaged scientific research on sexuality to develop political arguments and new knowledge between the 1890s to the 1930s. My current research examines the history of humor in U.S. feminism between the 1970s and the 1990s.
I’ve recently embarked on a project examining the history of stillbirth in the U.S. during the 20th and 21st centuries, and am interested in studying reproductive loss as a full spectrum experience, beyond the binary of “voluntary” and “involuntary” loss.
Below are the titles of some of my most recent publications, with links. For all of my publications, please see my cv.
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science (Cornell University Press, 2018)
It’s my book!! Here’s a link to it on Google Books.
Reviews for the book can be found in
The American Historical Review
Comedy as a Practice of Care: Restorative Laughter and Reciprocal Empathy in the Pandemic, Studies in American Humor 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 13-31.
