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I am committed to the advancement of LGBTQ history as a tool for empowerment and justice in the present. Here are some accessible digital projects and resources related to LGBTQ history that I have worked on:

http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/transgenderchildrenantebellum

http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/manion/essay

http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/10/why-do-you-call-us-ladies/

https://globalacademy.hms.harvard.edu/courses/course-v1:HarvardMedGlobalAcademy+LGBTQ1+1T2018/about

http://www.librarycompany.org/gayatlcp/

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/gsws/center/media/podcast

http://notchesblog.com/2016/03/10/histories-of-sexuality-and-the-carceral-state-part-1/

http://notchesblog.com/2016/07/05/histories-of-sexuality-and-the-carceral-state-round-2/

http://notchesblog.com/2016/11/22/histories-of-sexuality-and-the-carceral-state-part-3/

Recent Publications

Books
Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania, 2015)

Taking Back the Academy: History of Activism, History as Activism,eds., Jen Manion and Jim Downs (Routledge, 2004).

Articles
“Transgender Representations, Identities, and Communities,” The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s & Gender History, eds. Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa G. Materson (Oxford University Press, 2018), 311-331.

“Language, Acts, and Identity in LGBTQ Histories,” The Routledge History of Queer America, ed. Don Romesburg (Routledge, 2018), 213-223.

“Prisons Prior to Mass Incarceration: The Ideological Foundation of Women’s Dependency,” Western New England Law Review, Symposium: Gender and Incarceration, 39, no. 3 (2017): 371-380.

“Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White Men,” in U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood, eds. Leslie Brown, Jacqueline Castledine, and Anne Valk (Rutgers University Press, 2017), 151-170.

“Gendered Ideologies of Violence, Authority, and Racial Difference in New York State Penitentiaries, 1796-1848,” Radical History Review, Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State, 126 (October 2016): 11-29.

“The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania,” The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Legacies, Pennsylvania Pride: LGBT Histories of the Commonwealth, 16, no. 1 (June 2016): 6-11.

“Transbutch,” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 1 no. 1-2 (2014): 230-2.

“The Absence of Context: Gay Politics Without a Past,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World Making, 1 no. 2 (2014): 115-131.

Media Coverage

Twitter

@activisthistory

Country Focus

United States

Expertise by Geography

North America

Expertise by Chronology

4, 5, 8

Expertise by Topic

American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, Gender, Higher Ed, Law, Politics, Race, Sexuality