She received her PhD in History and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2014 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Case Western Reserve University and Kalamazoo College. She has a chapter on LGBT history in the forthcoming Routledge History of the 20th Century United States edited by Darren Dochuk and Jerald Podair and is currently working on a manuscript entitled, “‘The Famous Lady Lovers:’ African American Women and Same-Sex Desire before Stonewall.”