She is author of the book Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Duke University Press), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in 2016 and was co-winner of the Committee on LGBT History’s John Boswell Award in 2017. She has published articles in Women’s Studies Quarterly, GLQ, and the upcoming Routledge History of Queer America. She is currently working on a new book that investigates the historical emergence of emotional disturbance as a disability category in special education law.