Education:

BA, University of Dayton, magna cum laude, 2006
MA, U.S. History, University of Cincinnati, 2009

• Thesis: "Swill Milk in the 'Metropolis of Malt': Cincinnati Physicians and the Fight to End Distillery Dairies, 1850-1920"

Research Interests:

I am particularly interested in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of the United States, with a specific focus on the social and cultural history of "drugs" - the opiates, cocaine, cannabis, etc. as both licit and illicit substances. Specifically, I look to explore their paths to demonization and criminalization, their association with urban vice, moral decay, and underground economies, as well as the methods and practices used by governments, police, medicine, and society at-large to characterize, stigmatize, and control these substances over the past hundred and fifty years. Some of my previous research sought to gauge the impact of laws targeting opium smoking dens in Boston, while my current research focuses on the impetus for the earliest state-level cannabis prohibitions passed in New England during the 1910s.

Papers Presented:

"'Not a ragamuffin among them': Anti-Opium Legislation and the Demise of Boston's 'Gilded Dens,'" Presented at The Pub, the Street, and the Medicine Cabinet: The 6th International Conference on the History of Alcohol and Drugs at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), June 24-26, 2011.

[Invited] “Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Alcohol and Drug Prohibition Movements,” Presented to Boston Public School's - Teaching American History (TAH) Grant Program on Liberty, Equality and E Pluribus Unum, at Boston University, February 24, 2010.

“Swill Milk in the ‘Metropolis of Malt’: Cincinnati Physicians and the Fight to End Distillery Dairies, 1850- 1920.” Presented at the Queen City Colloquium History Graduate Conference, University of Cincinnati, June 5, 2009.

“Jobs, Peace, Freedom: The ‘Ever-Normal’ Notions of Henry A. Wallace.” Paper Presented at the Queen City Colloquium History Graduate Conference, University of Cincinnati, June 6, 2008.