Education
MA, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.Ed., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA, History, Mount Holyoke College
Research Interests
I study East Central Europe. My dissertation examines how citizens in a rural region of Czechoslovakia engaged with state power while also maintaining and defending their traditional local identities, practices, and relationships during the period of political transition immediately after the Second World War.
Some Notable Publications
“Světlana: Partisans and Power in Postwar Czechoslovakia,” Contemporary European History, January 2021.
Notable Awards and Fellowships
Recent Public Engagements
- “‘The Best Representatives of the Liberated People’: Local Legacies of Resistance in Postwar Czechoslovakia,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 6, 2024
- “‘Heritage of our Fathers’: Sts. Cyril and Methodius under Communist Rule,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, December 2, 2023
- “Living with the Old Ways: Rural Society and Collectivization in Stalinist Czechoslovakia,” Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, June 10, 2023
- “Folk Democracy in Moravian Wallachia,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, November 11, 2022
- “Moc na vesnici. Politický život na Valašsku, 1945-1954,” Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, November 24, 2021
Courses Offered
Russia under the Last Tsars and Soviet Commissars (Instructor of record, Fall 2024)
History of the Holocaust (TA, Spring 2023)
History of Lies, Conspiracy Theories, and Disinformation (TA, Fall 2022)
Liberalism, Socialism, and Fascism in Europe (TA, Fall 2020)
Human Rights in History (TA, Fall 2020)
The World Since 1945 (TA, Spring 2019, Fall 2018)