Research
My research focus is North American social, cultural, and spatial history, including the history of borderlands and transculturation,
Southern history, African American history, the history of race and ethnicity, and gender history.
My first book, “Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood” (University of Georgia Press, 2021) offers a gender, cultural and social history that examines the intersectional
entanglements of white segregationist women’s activism in Massive Resistance during the 1950s and 1960s. It provides a comparative overview and analysis of
women’s involvement in Massive Resistance, developing several typologies of female segregationist activists. By doing so, it takes into account factors such
as class, age, religion, gender-specific self-conceptions and regional aspects to trace the differential points of emergence, forms of activism,
self-understandings and media representations of segregationist women in Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
Currently, I am working on my second book, "Reconstructing Biopolitics: Border Crossings, Disease, and Conflict in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf South, 1836-1878" which analyzes the entangled histories of the United States' territorial expansion, mosquito-born illnesses, and sociopolitical conflicts in the antebellum and postbellum periods.