CV

Academic Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor, the University of Houston-Clear Lake, First-Year Seminar Program and Humanities Program, August 2015-present

Education

Ph.D., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015

Dissertation: “Civilization’s Supreme Test”: Cooperative Organizing in New Orleans, 1890s-2014

Doctoral Portfolio, Women’s and Gender Studies

M.A., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009

Thesis: Jolly Ocean Rovers: Gender and Radio Technology in the 1910s

B.A., American Studies, Minor in Art and Art History, The College of William and Mary, 2007

Current Research and Writing

Cooperatives in New Orleans: Collective Action and Urban Development (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, May 2020).

Refereed Journal Articles   

2017   “Dust Mop or Mic? Women’s Utopian Border-Crossings in Cold War Ham Radio,” Radio Journal 15, no. 2 (October 2017).

2017   “Warriors for Lower Prices: The New Orleans Housewives’ League and the Consumer Cooperative Movement, 1913-1921,” Journal of Southern History 83, no. 3 (August 2017).

2015   “‘A Formula for Freedom’: The Utopian Promise of the 1940s New Orleans Cooperative Movement,” Utopian Studies 26, no. 1 (May 2015).

2015   “‘Purifying the Upper Atmosphere’: Women’s Work in Early Radio, 1905-1913,” American Studies in Scandinavia 46, no. 1 (2014).

Book Reviews

2018   “Review: Leonard Rogoff’s Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South,” Journal of Southern History 84, no. 1 (February 2018).

2012    “Review: Sharon Zukin’s Naked City,” E3W Review of Books 2 (Spring 2012).

Non-Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

2015   “The Liberatory Potential of Worker Co-ops: A Look at Ecology Action and Treasure City Thrift,” in Emergency Hearts/Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader: Selected Interviews and Conversations, 2010-2015 (Cleveland: GTK Press, 2015).

Teaching Experience

University of Houston-Clear Lake

HIST 4313, History of Feminism

HIST 1302, U.S. History II

HUMN 3375, Ideas in Transition: Utopia

PSYC 1100, First-Year Seminar, transfer student section

PSYC 1100, First-Year Seminar

The University of Texas at Austin

AMS 310, American Utopia

RHE 309S, Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing

RHE 309K, Rhetoric of Gentrification

RHE 306, Rhetoric and Writing

Public Talks

2021 “Cooperating in the Crescent City: Lessons Learned from New Orleans’s Interracial, Intergenerational Cooperative Movement,” “The College of HSH Presents,” University of  Houston-Clear Lake

Recent and Current Conferences

Association for Literary Urban Studies Conference, Limerick, Republic of Ireland, December 2019

Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2018

Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, August 2018

Texas A&M University at Galveston Conference on Inclusion & Diversity in Higher Education, Galveston, TX, April 2017

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, January 2017

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2016

Innovative Teaching & Learning Symposium, Houston, TX, April 2016

Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2014

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013

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