My current project, "Beyond Romance: Kinship Experiments in the Modern United States," illuminates aromantic resonances throughout history by showing the ways that individuals and communities have pursued alternative kinship practices, such as friendship, nonmonogamy, and singlehood, and embraced the flexibility within traditional kinship forms like marriage and the nuclear family, for logistical and affective support and to reject amatonormativity. In doing so, I demonstrate how aromanticism and amatonormativity can serve as lenses of analysis to situate alternative kinship within broader histories.

I also conduct research in disability studies. In particular, I am interested in combining approaches from disability studies and public history to understand how collective memory influences the U.S. cultural and political construction of the pandemic, particularly among COVID-conscious communities and activists. I also work with the Rutgers Anti-Eugenics and Reparative Action Lab to explore histories and legacies of the eugenics movement at the university, from entanglement with carceral institutions to investment in the white, heterosexual nuclear family.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles​​

“Choosing to Remember: A Queer Disabled Oracle History of the COVID-19 Pandemic in England.” Forthcoming, Disability Studies Quarterly.

“Reading the Past Through the Present: Queer Associations Between AIDS and COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.” Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research 14 (2024): 99-121. 

“The Museum of Transology and Radical (Trans) Trust.” Trans Histories by Trans Historians, special issue of Graduate History Review 12 (2023): 227-243. 

With Molly Merryman. “Situating Queer Collective Memory During the Time of COVID: Timelessness, Loneliness and Resilience as Part of the Queer Britain Oral History Collection.” Memory Studies 16, no. 1 (2023): 100-112.

“Queering the Decameron: Queer Characters in Day 5 Story 10.” Rock Creek Review 2 (2022): 58-71.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

“Language and the Erasure of Disability in United States COVID-19 Memorialization.” In The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, edited by Jamie A. Lee, Gracen Brilmyer, Joyce Gabiola, and Sandy Littletree. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.

“Nonbinary and Asexuality: Emergent Identities, Long Histories.” In The Routledge History of Queer America, 2nd edition, edited by Don Romesburg. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.

“‘Your Friend, Your Best Friend, Your Brother’: Locating Newsies Chosen Family in Labor History.” In Carryin’ the Banner: Critical Essays on the Newsies Film and Broadway Adaptation, edited by Emily Hamilton-Honey. Jefferson: McFarland and Co., forthcoming.

With Gareth Schott. “‘Okay?’ No, Not Okay: Does Romance Deliver a Good Death for Terminally Ill Young People?” In Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying, edited by Gareth Schott, 115-134. London: Palgrave MacMillian, 2023.

Reviews

Review of Hacking the Underground, Disabled Power, Care at the End of the World, and Hospital Aesthetics. Accepted to American Quarterly.

Review of For a Spell. Forthcoming in Journal of the History of Sexuality.

Review of The Other Significant Others, forthcoming in QED 12, no. 1 (2025).

Review of Preserving Disability, forthcoming in The American Archivist 88, no. 2 (2025).

Review of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic in Disability & Society, preprint. 

Review of “Smoke and Mirrors” in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 14, no. 2 (2025).