I am a fourth-year doctoral candidate in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.
I am currently a graduate teaching associate teaching Cultural Pluralism in the United States. Throughout my time at BGSU, I have served as the assistant director for BGSU’s public humanities center, The Institute for the Study of Culture and Society. My past work includes serving as an instructor for Introduction to Women’s Studies: Perspectives on Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in BGSU’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
My current research is focused on exploring the discursive construction of the witch in feminist movements beginning in the US Suffrage movement continuing to the present day. In this research, I analyze how certain narrative framings of the witch have empowered only certain women while excluding trans women and conflating gender-based oppression with race-based oppression thus enabling uncritical appropriation of BIPOC spiritual practices. As this project develops, I seek to apply a queer-feminist intersectional lens to the symbol of the witch to see if it is possible for one symbol or figure to hold space for differences in race, class, gender, sex, and sexuality without erasing or collapsing important historical and contemporary differences.
B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology, Earlham College
M.A. in Gender Studies, Central European University