I am currently 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 performed and perfected “whiteness,” 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.

In contextualizing the present-day shift in the American right-wing and conservative establishment, historians and scholars are arguing that we are entering a period of the “New, New Right” or the “MAGA New Right”. They say that this differs from the Republican fusionism of Reagan because they are now not concerned with policy but rather cultural warriorism that rejects pluralist, multiracial “woke” democracy in favor of preserving patriarchal, white, Christian structures.

I argue that to see how this shift has come about, we should evaluate how the racial project of whiteness has been key to the right-wing; specifically by how an important (but sometimes overlooked) constituency of the right-wing—white women and the “womanosphere”—have championed and streamlined this racial project of whiteness, particularly in media ecosystems, which is where political and racial ideologies are now created and fomented.
In this way, this history of the womanosphere and its performance of whiteness offers a narrative of the American media landscape and its role in political and racial projects, an examination of some gender performances in the right-wing, and most importantly, shows how whiteness and whiteness studies is crucial for understanding the transformation of the American right-wing and the mainstreaming of white supremacist and far-right beliefs.

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