RESEARCH & WRITING

Books

Carceral Girlhoods: Juvenile Justice and “the Problem” of the Girl in New Orleans, forthcoming on University of North Carolina Press

A book-length study of the establishment of girls’ juvenile justice institutions across New Orleans. Based on original archival research including work with previously unprocessed collections at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Arson Girls, Match-Strikers, and Firestarters: A Reflection on Rage, Racialization, and the Carcerality of Girlhood,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 47, No. 2, Winter 2022

Nominated for the Berkshire Conference for Women Historians Article Prize, 2023

Book Reviews

Review of Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania by Erica Rhodes Hayden, The English Historical Review, 2021

Review of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (Second Edition) by Elizabeth Reis, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2026 (forthcoming)

Archival Publications

Guide to the Trianon Press Archive (MS 099)  —  Lead cataloger and curator. Finding aid published to the Online Archive of California, UC Santa Cruz Special Collections, 2019; https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8th8tht/

Alternative Press Index, Vol. 42, No.3, 2011 

Alternative Press Index, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2010 

Creative Writing

Avalon, Peradam Press, 2011

Avalon is the once and future; a clandestine and pervasive language which illuminates a familiar horizon, imbued with potential and possibility.