PhD Student
North America
I am a first-year PhD student studying people who lived on the fringes of 19th and 20th century U.S. society—sex workers, (im)migrants, queer and trans people, and racialized and criminalized “others.”
Research Interests
- Urban policing
- Sex work
- Political radicalism
- Queer and trans histories
- The carceral state
- Working-class cultures
- Abolitionism
Awards and Fellowships (Selected)
- Forris Jewett Moore Fellowship in History, Amherst College (2025)
- Henry P. Field Fellowship in History, Amherst College (2025)
- Frederick L. Cheyette Prize, Amherst College History Department (2022)
- Asa J. Davis Prize for Academic Distinction in the History of Africa and the Black Diaspora, Amherst College History Department (2022)
- Gregory S. Call Undergraduate Research Award, Amherst College (2019)
Presentations
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"Black-Jewish Solidarity." Presented at Amherst College's 3-Minute Thesis Competition. May 5, 2022. Amherst, MA.
- "Fertile Grounds for Solidarity: Black and Jewish Radical Relationships in Interwar New York City." Presented at the Amherst College History Department Symposium: History and Race in the U.S. and Beyond. April 29, 2022. Amherst, MA.
Education
- B.A. in History, Amherst College (2022)
