I am currently on a fellowship, serving as the Assistant Reviews Editor for UC Press’s The Public Historian. 

However, I am holding office hours for the Promise Scholars/INT 10 Time Management Program, which will be by appointment only with enrolled students. 

I am an American historian with extensive experience teaching and mentoring undergraduates from diverse backgrounds. I have published articles relating to the interplay of gender in influencing racial extremism and white supremacist groups in 20th-century California, both in women’s organizations (the United Daughters of the Confederacy) and men’s groups (Neo-nazi movements).

My current dissertation, “The Not-So-Dark Web: The Digital Development and Danger of the Right Wing’s White Womanhood,” analyzes the history of the American right wing’s white supremacist ideologies in internet spaces and subsequent racial violence. It chronicles how white, right-wing women content creators from the 1990s to 2025 marketed a “white womanhood” as a powerful and palatable form of white supremacy on mainstream sites. The project is rooted in archival research of videos, podcasts, and social media posts from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. Overall, this is a historical narrative, but I incorporate content analysis from media studies and sociology, as well as utilizing data analytics on these sources’ metadata, which is done through Archive-It internet crawling software. This dissertation draws from initiatives that address right-wing mobilization in internet communities and combat physical racial violence resulting from online radicalization. My work adds another dimension to these activists’ work by showing how policy research must first recognize whiteness as the primary motivator for acts of right-wing racial violence.

History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.

-James Baldwin