Education
B.A., Syracuse University, 2020: History, Physics, and Political Science
M.A., Oregon State University, 2022: History and Philosophy of Science
Thesis: "Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam's Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921"
Research Interests
I study the intersections between home economics and feminism in the second half of the twentieth century. I am interested in how changing ideas about women’s work, education, and place in the home led to the faltering of the field of home economics and its reinvention as family and consumer science. I am also interested in how home economics’ role in popular imagination and memory, as its scientific and reform centered mission has been replaced by antifeminist sentiment in popular memory.