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

WomenAlsoKnowHistory.com, 2017 – Present
Founding Team Member & Advisor Board Member

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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Teaching

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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

• Sarah Seo, Policing the Open Road (2019). Commissioned April 2019.
• Kristin L. Hoganson, The Heartland: An American History (2019). Commissioned March 2019.
• Katrina Jagodinsky and Pablo Mitchell (eds.), Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West (2018). Commissioned October 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)).

​Other Writing

• The American Yawp: a Free and Online, Collaboratively Built American History Textbook. (americanyawp.com) Trial use in academic year 2014-2015. Contributed on topics including the Equal Rights Amendment, Black Power, and Women’s Rights Movement. 
• "Book Roundup: Special Edition," June 22, 2014, Legal History Blog.
• "A Sunday Book List: Civil Rights," June 29, 2014, Legal History Blog.
• "A Sunday Book List: Women's Citizenship," July 6, 2014, Legal History Blog.
• "Life & Law Panel Recap: "Space Along the Rural-Urban Spectrum," March 29, 2016, Legal History Blog.