I am a historian of 19th and 20th century United States and Europe. I examine the intersections of gender and sexuality, medicine, and media with an emphasis on transnational history.

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso and a Research Affiliate at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. Formerly, I was the Program Director of Our Bodies Ourselves Today in the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University.

I am deeply committed to fostering the digital humanities. I am the Senior Producer for Sexing History, a podcast that examines how the history of sexuality shapes our present; on the Advisory Board for Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, an international, peer-reviewed blog; and I co-created SourceLab, a digital publishing initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I graduated with my PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; my MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University; my MA in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College; and my BA in Communication and Media Arts from Marymount Manhattan College.