She is co-creator and host of the podcast Sexing History. After receiving her PhD in History from New York University in 2012, Lauren was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her writing has been published in Gender & History, the Journal of Social History, The Public Historian and Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. She is currently revising her book manuscript Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriagewhich examines the personal experiences and public representation of wives who desired women in the United States since 1945.