I’m a historian of sex and sexuality focused on Early Modern/Modern Britain and its empire. My work highlights issues of queerness, masculinity, and sexual identities. My current project explores how queer masculinities came into conflict with visions of imperial masculinity in the long-eighteenth century through the figure of the ‘military macaroni.’
I am experienced in teaching and supporting students from diverse backgrounds, and a strong advocate for the importance of public history and its potential to reclaim marginalized pasts.
My undergraduate research explored the role of ‘molly houses’ as formative and performative spaces for London’s early-eighteenth century queer subculture. My MA thesis shifted my focus on urban sites of queer community to New York City in the 1980s/1990s through an exploration of the Club Kid subculture and its influence on American popular culture (a longtime personal interest of mine). Alongside my geographic and temporal focus, I have received substantial training in queer and feminist theory, Atlantic and global histories, as well as histories of nationalism and nativism.
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” — Oscar Wilde (1891)
“Princess Seraphina: Queer Visibility at the Old Bailey”
Broadsides Blog, June 2025
Club Kids and Party Monsters: Building a Queer Subculture in New York City Nightlife (1986-1998) — MA Thesis, 2024
‘Among Our Own Selves’: Molly Houses and the Formation of Georgian England’s Queer Community — 2022
Conference Presentations
CSU History Department Research Seminar May 2023
“Interpreting Legacy, Land, and Community at Pio Pico State Park”
Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference March, 2023
‘Among Our Own Selves’: Molly Houses and the Formation of Georgian England’s Queer Community
Professional Associations
Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society 2022- 2024
Vice President, Theta-Pi Chapter (CSU Fullerton)