After working in museum education, collections management, and curatorial, she received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from the University of Delaware in 2011. Her teaching and research interests focus on U.S. women’s history of the 19th and 20th century, oral history, material culture, and public history. Her current research includes oral history projects focused on abortion and reproductive rights as well as childhood narratives of World War II. She is currently working on a manuscript titled “’Strong and Sure as Well as Fair and Soft’: Physical Education, Athletics, and the Roots of Women’s Physical Activism.” This work highlights the early history of women’s collegiate fitness programming as the genesis of gender-based physically active political activism.