Education

Ph.D.-History, University of Virginia, 2013
M.A.-History, University of Virginia, 2005
B.A. summa cum laude with honors-History, Binghamton University, 2004

Biography

PhD Candidate

Dissertation: "'This Wrong Being Done to My People': Street Gangs, Historical Agency, and Crime Politics in Postwar America"

PUBLICATIONS

“Law Enforcement Administration Act” in The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, ed. Wilbur R. Miller (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2012).

“A Woman’s Touch: Gender at Monticello, 1945–1960,” in Entering the Fray: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the New South, ed. Jonathan Wells and Sheila Phipps (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009).

PAPERS PRESENTED

“Tough on Crime: The Liberal Roots of Punishment and Incarceration”; American Historical Association 127th Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, 2013.

“Latino and Asian Street Gangs : How Immigration Shaped the Rise of the Carceral State”; Social Science History Association 37th Annual Meeting; Vancouver, BC, 2012.

“The Golden Dragon Massacre as a Golden Opportunity: Asian American Mobilization in San Francisco, 1977–1990”; Urban History Association 6th Biennial Conference; New York, NY, 2012.

“‘Get Off Your Knees America’: Local Law Enforcement and Federal Crime Politics, 1960–1970”; American Historical Association 126th Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, 2012.

“Police Politics: Urban Law Enforcement and the ‘Law and Order’ Movement”; Social Science History Association 36th Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2011.

“The War on Poverty: Contingency and Federal Crime Control”; Prison Studies Group of the City University of the New York 1st Annual Conference; New York, NY, 2011.

“From White to Black: Race and Definitions of Urban Street Gangs, 1950–1970”; Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, 2010.

“Punks or Partners?: Gangs and the War on Poverty”; Boston University 2nd Annual Graduate American Political History Conference; Boston, MA, 2010.

“‘Starting Something’: Civil Rights and the Historical Narratives at Jamestown, 1957”; The Virginia Forum; Richmond, VA, 2007.

“Afraid of Starting Something: Massive Resistance and the Jamestown Festival”; University of Maryland Baltimore County History Graduate Student Conference; Baltimore, MD, 2007.

“Bringing Along the Children: Women and Gender at Monticello, 1945–1960”; Southern Association for Women Historians 7th Conference on Women’s History; Baltimore, MD, 2006.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2011

HIUS 200: United States History to 1865 (lecture)

HIUS 450: Crime, Control, and Culture: The History of Crime in Twentieth-Century America (seminar)

Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2005–2007

 HIUS 315: United States Society and Politics, 1900–1945

 HIUS 361: History of Women in America, 1600–1865

 HIUS 367: History of the Civil Rights Movement

 HIST 361: Espionage and Intelligence in the Twentieth Century