I am an interdisciplinary social movement historian interested in queer-feminist engagements with land and care ethics in the long 1970s. I currently serve as Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Program Advisor to the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute at the University of Virginia. I earned my Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2023, where my work was supported by the Critical Ethnic Studies Collective, the Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship from Smith College, and the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Prior to my time at UVA, I served as a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar and Teagle Fellow at North Carolina State University.
In my current book project, I examine the emergence of feminist care infrastructures in response to state and patriarchal repression through the archives of Black and Indigenous women participants in the womyn’s land movement in the United States. My work has appeared Feminist Theory and QED as well as in several edited collections.
In addition to my scholarly work, I am known for a lawsuit I filed against my high school principal regarding an unlawful faith-based “sex education” assembly in West Virginia in 2013.
I currently live and work on the lands of the Monacan people in central Virginia.