Author of _Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory_(University of Oklahoma Press, 2019) and _Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier_ (University of Arizona Press, 2007). Co-editor (with Maureen S. Thompson) of _Backstories: The Kitchen Table Talk Cookbook_. I am currently developing a website focusing on pioneer monuments, http://pioneermonuments.net, and a pedagogical game focusing on relocating and reinterpreting public monuments.
Experience
2007–present
Professor of History, University of North Dakota
2005–2007
Teaching Fellow, Loyola Marymount University
2004–2005
Lecturer, California State University, Channel Islands
Education
2004
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., History
2000
University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., History
1998
Duke University, A.B., History
Publications
2021
Backstories: The Kitchen Table Talk Cookbook, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
2019
Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory, University of Oklahoma Press
2007
Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, University of Arizona Press