Welcome! I am a political science PhD candidate at Syracuse University with a certificate of advanced studies in Women's and Gender Studies, and I teach and research in both political science and WGS. I hold a MA in political science from Syracuse University and a BA in Human Rights Studies and English Literature from the University of Dayton, and I expect to defend my dissertation in the Spring of 2027. I am currently on the job market, and my goal as a researcher, teacher, and community member is to produce scholarship and create spaces inside and outside of the classroom that make trans lives more livable.

I research the transnational anti-gender movement and the global politics of transphobia. My work is interdisciplinary and combines feminist and queer approaches to gender-based governance and cisnormativity with political science literature on transnational advocacy and backlash movements. My dissertation explores the unlikely political alliance among anti-trans feminist and traditionalist actors who put aside their competing commitments to patriarchy in pursuit of a shared anti-trans politic. Through support from the National Science Foundation via APSA's DDRIG grant, I identified a network of 175 transnational anti-trans feminist and traditionalist organizations working in coalitions and compiled a data set of 1016 of their anti-trans texts. The first empirical chapter of this work has been published in Politics and Gender.

When I am not researching the horrors of anti-trans backlash, I am turning toward the beautiful—reading literature, watching birds, and struggling through a rotation of craft-based hobbies.