Trained as an interdisciplinary historian, my research background has prepared me to work on a wide variety of topics, and to be creative in utilizing a range of sources. My undergraduate thesis examined coverage of the Japanese American Internment in high school history textbooks (summa cum laude), and my Master's thesis critically analyzed the narrative mapping of imperial desire in Mark Twain's 1866 letters from Hawai'i (winner of the Dean's Award in the Humanities, 2017).

Other past projects of my own include a history of cosmetic disciplining practices among American women, an exploration of the connection between nightmares and Gothic horror fiction, and a multidisciplinary exploration of the cultural and political effects of the anthropogenic spread of the small Indian mongoose across the British Empire.

I also worked with the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project to investigate an unsolved, racially-motivated murder in 1950s Georgia. And, I have taught research tools and techniques to both undergraduate students at UC Santa Cruz and middle school students participating in the Atlanta Urban Debate League.