Education

Princeton University
Doctor of Philosophy, History
Master of Arts, History

University of California, Berkeley
Juris Doctor

University of Oxford, England
Master of Science, Comparative Social Policy

Indiana University, Bloomington
Bachelor of Arts, History & Art History

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Clerkship

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Law Clerk to the Honorable David F. Hamilton

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Legal Experience

Goodwin Procter, San Francisco, CA
Summer Associate
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Legal Advocates for Children & Youth, San Jose, CA
​Summer Associate

Advocates for Youth Justice, Berkeley, CA
Court Appointed Education Advocate

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Service & Memberships

Legal History Blog, 2013 – 2016
Weekly Book Roundup Contributor and Social-Media Coordinator 
(with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel Ernst, and Karen Tani)

Bar Admissions

• ​​State Bar of California
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Selected Organizational Memberships

• American Society for Legal History
• American Historical Association
• Organization of American Historians
• Law & Society Organization

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Pedagogy Training & Experience

Princeton University

• McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning, 2015 - 2019

          Graduate Teaching Fellow

• Princeton Writing Center, 2014 - 2015

          Writing Fellow & Independent Work Mentor

• Teagle Teaching Graduate Fellow, 2014 – 2015
• McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning: Teaching Transcript, Completed May 2015

Indiana University

• Office of Service-Learning, Indiana University, 2006 - 2008

          Advocate for Community Engagement, Templeton Elementary

Current Appointment 

University of Michigan Law School
Faculty Fellow 2019-2021

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Fellowships

Jefferson Scholars Foundation
National Fellow 

​William Nelson Cromwell Foundation
Early Career Research Fellowship

Princeton University
Teagle Teaching Graduate Fellow

Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy
Coblentz Fellow

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Publications

Articles
"Winks, Whispers, and Prosecutorial Discretion in Rural Iowa, 1925-1928," Annals of Iowa​. (forthcoming 2020)

"Law & Laundry: White Laundresses, Chinese Laundrymen, and the Origins of Muller v. Oregon," Studies in Law Politics and Society. (forthcoming 2020)
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Law and Local Activism: Uncovering the Civil Rights History of Chambers v. Mississippi, 100 Calif. L. Rev. 445 (2013). 

• Cited in Kubsch v. Neal, 800 F.3d 783 (7th Cir. 2015).
• Cited in Brief for the NAACP LDEF as Amicus Curiae, Flowers v. State of Mississippi, 2018 WL 6921334 (U.S. 2018)​.

Book Reviews

• Katrina Jagodinsky and Pablo Mitchell (eds.), Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West (2018).
• Julianne Couch, The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twentieth Century. Commissioned February 2018.
• Book Note, 25 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 236 (2010) (reviewing Ruth Rubio-Marin, The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations (2009)).​

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Teaching

University of Michigan Law School

• Seminar: Law in Rural America ​(Winter 2020)

Princeton University

• American Studies 101: America Then & Now, Spring 2015

          Taught by Paul Frymer, Hendrik Hartog, and Naomi Murakowa

• History 384: Gender & Sexuality in Modern America, Fall 2014

          *Cross listed as Gender & Sexuality Studies 384
          Taught by Margot Canaday

University of California, Berkeley                                                                  

• Legal Research & Writing, Fall 2010 & Fall 2011 
• Written & Oral Advocacy, Spring 2011 & Spring 2012  

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Sociology 389: Diversity & Education (Service-Learning Course), Spring 2005

          Taught by David Schoem