American Women’s History, 19th-Century American History, metacognition, integrative learning
Positions
Professor, History, Bronx Community College
Professor, Biography and Memoir M.A., CUNY Graduate Center
Adjunct Professor, General Studies, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Publications
“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: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. Associate Editor.
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Education
Ph.D., History, New York University, 2002 B.A., English, Middlebury College, 1991