Work In Progress

Selected Publications

• Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives, co-edited with Pamela S. Nadell (New York University Press, 2013)
• "Rods and Reels: Social Clubs and Political Culture in Early Pennsylvania," Early American Studies, accepted.
• The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, Gender and American Culture Series, 2011)
• "Mixed Messages: Women's Fashion and American National Identity," The Magazine Antiques, Summer 2010
• “Defining ‘American Women’s History’,” in Major Problems in American Women’s History, Mary Beth Norton and Ruth Alexander, eds., 3rd ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
• “Fashion and the Culture Wars of Revolutionary Philadelphia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., vol. 62, no. 4, October 2005, 625-62
• “Room in Back: Before and Beyond the Nation in Women’s/Gender History,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 15, no 2, Spring 2003, 167-71

Research Interests

Early America, The History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cultural History

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

• Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize for Best First Book in the History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality for The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
• National Endowment for the Humanities - Independent Research Institution Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library
• Library Company of Philadelphia - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
• New York Historical Society - Rosenwald Fellowship
• American Antiquarian Society - Legacy Fellowship
• David Library of the American Revolution - In-Residence Fellowship
• Co-Winner of the 2003 Messenger-Chalmers Prize for the Best Dissertation on Human Progress and the Evolution of Civilization