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Research and Teaching Interests:

My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to U.S. social and cultural history and explores what popular culture, material artifacts and literary texts reveal about historical constructions of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class. I’m also interested in the politics of memory and the ways archives, genealogy, and public history shape the stories we tell about the past.

I teach courses in U.S. history, women’s history, economic and social history, and public history. I also teach courses in women’s and gender studies including girlhood studies and sexuality and queer studies.

Research Areas:

• Working-class women’s history
• Cultural history—especially photography, popular, and material culture.
• History and memory
• Girlhood studies

Book:

Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States, 1933-1945. U of Wisconsin P, 1998.

Recent Publications:

“Teaching the Girls: The Triangle Fire as Affective History.” Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasicatti, eds. Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire. New York: NYU P. 2022.

Current Projects:

• Researching the historiography of public memory for “Mapping Memory,” a digital history project.
• Using OMEKA to create a digital archive of girlhood in Jersey City and its surrounding areas.
• Writing and research for a creative nonfiction book, Scottish Murder Ballad.