CURRENT INSTITUTION:

California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)

HISTORICAL AREAS OF FOCUS:

Gender and sexuality during the American interwar period, c. 1918-1941, postwar American marriage and sexuality, c. 1945-65, and perceptions of “true womanhood” and femininity in late Victorian American society, c. 1865-1901.

CURRENT RESEARCH (COMPLETED MAY 2012):

“Until Death Do Us Part: Marriage, Sex Manuals, and the Creation of Ideal Femininity in Postwar American Society, 1948-65”

Advisor: Dr. Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton 

CONFERENCES:

1. Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference, California State University, Fullerton (April 2012)

2. HTCC Student Research Conference, University of California, Irvine (March 2011)

EXHIBITIONS:

1. The American Craftsman Movement: Homemaking in Brea, CA, 1910-1930. Brea Museum and Heritage Center, Brea, CA (In progress - expected June 2012)

PAPERS AND REVIEWS (2010-PRESENT):

1. “Ladies in Whalebone: The Corset, Femininity, and Perceptions of Propriety in Victorian American Society, 1840-1880.” (Spring 2012)

2. “Sister Suffragettes: American Women, Society, and Progressivism, 1900-1920” (Spring 2012)

3. “Unraveling Human Sin: Analyzing Depictions of Social Inequality and Disorder in Early American Silent Films, c. 1910-1930” (Spring 2012)

4. “Reconstructing Byt: Bolshevik Perceptions of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnic Culture in Early Soviet Russia, c. 1917-1945” (Spring 2012)

5. “Regulating Hysteria: Analyzing Sexual Repression and the Struggle for Social Purity in Christine Worobec’s Possessed and Laura Engelstein’s Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom” (Spring 2012)

6. Book review: Florida Scott-Maxwell. Women and Sometimes Men. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1957.  (Spring 2012)

7. Book review: Jane Gerhard. Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920-1982. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2001. (Spring 2012)

8. Article review: Rachel B. Herrmann. The “tragicall historie”: Cannibalism and Abundance in Colonial Jamestown. The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 68, no. 1 (January 2011): 47-74. (Spring 2012) 

9. Book review: George R. Stewart. Ordeal By Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party. Houghton Mifflin, 1936. Rev. 1960-63, 1988. (Fall 2011)

10. ”White Sheep, Black Sheep: Examining the Deconstruction of the Weimar Economy and Its Impact on Personal Relationships in Hans Fallada’s Little Man, What Now? (1932)” (Fall 2011)

11. “Der Heile Welt: Investigating the Connection Between Nazi and Postwar German Culture as Portrayed in Contemporary Narratives and Testimonies, 1933-1989.” (Fall 2011)

12.  ”Sublime London: Examining Shakespeare’s Social and Intellectual Impact on Working Class Attitudes in Early Victorian London, c. 1837-1870” (Spring 2011) 

13.  ”Giving ‘Em Dirt: Broadway Actresses, Public Censorship, and the Struggle for Artistic Freedom, 1919-1929” (Fall 2010)

MEMBER:

Phi Alpha Theta, national history honors society, Theta-Pi chapter. 

EDITING BOARD:

“The Welebaethan,” California State University, Fullerton (Expected Fall 2012)