Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies

Faculty Affiliate, History

Faculty Affiliate, Center in Law, Society and Culture

histories and theories of gender, race, and sexuality; feminist studies; queer studies; American studies; law and society; carceral studies; social movements; recent U.S. social, political, and legal history

Hellman Fellowship, Hellman Fellows Fund (2017–2018)
Honorable Mention for the Judith Lee Ridge Prize for best article in the field of history, Western Association of Women Historians (2015)
Joan Heller-Diane Bernard Fellowship, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at The City University of New York Graduate Center (2012–2013)
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship (2008–2009)

Courses Taught at UCI
20: Introduction to Queer Studies
50c: Gender and Popular Culture
60b: Gender and Law
110a: Gender, State, and Nation
120c: Practices of Embodiment
157a: Policing Gender and Sexuality
197: Gender and Sexuality Studies Senior Seminar
201: Cultures of Activism

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming spring 2019)

2015. "Lessons in Self-Defense: Gender Violence, Racial Criminalization, and Anticarceral Feminism." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, Nos. 3 & 4): 52-71.

2014. "Against the 'Prison/Psychiatric State': Anti-violence Feminisms and the Politics of Confinement in the 1970s." Feminist Formations (Vol. 26, No. 2): 26-51.

Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University (2011–2012)

UCI Humanities Commons Research and Travel Award (2015)

UCI Inclusive Excellence Spirit Grant (2016)

UCI Initiative to End Family Violence Collaborative-Building Grant (2017)

American Studies Association

National Women's Studies Association

Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (affiliate of the American Historical Association)

Western Association of Women Historians

Law and Society Association

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Last updated
11/05/2018