American Women’s History, 19th-Century American History, biography

• Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and their Family Legacy. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2025 (July).
• “Ellen Tucker Emerson: Portrait of a Daughter as Secretary, Editor, and Biographer.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Christopher Hanlon, 425-440. New York: Oxford University Press 2024.
• “Prospects for the Study of Harriet Jacobs.” Resources for American Literary Study. 45, no.1 (2023): 1-30.
• “The Education of Ellen Tucker Emerson.” New England Quarterly 93, no. 1 (2020): 74-100. 
• “Prophetic Dramas: The Time Travel Narratives of Harriet Hosmer and Frances Power Cobbe.” In Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, 158-172. New York: Routledge, 2019. 
• “‘Doing Historian Business:’ Great Men and Local History at Bronx Community College.”  Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Volume 26, no. 2 (2016): 246-255.
• “A Bridge, Not a Wall: Uses of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College.” In Remaking the American College Campus: Essays, edited by Jonathan Silverman and Meghan Sweeney, 57-78. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2016.
• Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
• The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. (Associate Editor.) 

Ph.D., History, New York University, 2002
B.A., English, Middlebury College, 1991