Writing

Books

Crafting Womanhood: Needlework, Gender, and Politics in the United States, 1810-1920 is forthcoming with the University of Delaware Press’s Material Culture Perspectives series. It was awarded a publishing grant from the Decorative Arts Trust for 2025.

Articles

“Folded into the Archive: Racialized Textile Labours and the Work of Suffrage Memory,” Histoire Sociale/Social History 56, no. 116 (November 2023): 341-367.

“‘May the points of our needles prick’: Antislavery Needlework and the Cultivation of the Abolitionist Self,” Winterthur Portfolio 55, no. 2-3 (Summer/Autumn 2021): 83-204.

“Materiality, Affect, and the Archive: The Possibility of Feminist Nostalgia in Contemporary Handkerchief Embroidery,” Material Culture Review 86 (2017): 15-34.

Scholarly Blogs and Online Publications

“Reconsidering Commemorations at the U.S. 250th: Symbolism and National Identity After the American Revolution,” part of the Revolutionary Narratives series on Uncommon Sense, the Omohundro Institute’s blog (February 14, 2024).

“The Little Suffragist Doll: Cotton, White Supremacy, and Sweet Little Dolls,” Nursing Clio (October 2020).