She received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Northwestern University in 2014. Her research focuses on political economy, urban history, and financial history. Her current project examines how the financial system shaped and was shaped by the political organizing of ordinary people during the last third of the twentieth century. She is also interested in scholarship on teaching and learning, and is working with a group of college and high school history instructors on a blueprint to coordinate pedagogy across the high school and college divide.