Hi! I am an MA/PhD student in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara whose work sits at the intersection of mid-twentieth-century U.S. urban history, Cold War political culture, and the histories of gender and sexuality. I am especially interested in how “progress” – as imagined through architecture, planning, and policy – has often been articulated through white, masculine, heteronormative visions of the future, and how those visions have shaped exclusionary urban practices and civic belonging.

Drawing on training in urban studies, human geography, and political science, I approach urban history as both a material and cultural project: one built through plans, renderings, bureaucracies, and everyday norms. I am drawn to the archives of planning and “paper” architecture, including unbuilt or speculative schemes, as a way to understand how ideals of the good city produced boundaries around citizenship, family, and public life.

Advisor: Alice O’Connor

TA for HIST 17C: The American People. Spring 2026.

Intern for City of Toronto’s “Housing Secretariat”. 2024-2025.

Provost Scholar, University of Toronto. Spring 2025.

Chancellor Scholar, University of Toronto. Autumn 2023.

Dean’s List Scholar. Spring 2023.