I am a legal historian and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School where I teach courses on property and rural law. My research focuses on the social and political history of the law and includes the study of place, gender and sexuality, and race. 

​My book project, Making the Rural Midwest: A Legal History, 1920-2020, is forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press in 2026. Learn more about the book project here, and about other current research projects and past articles here.