[2] At Wesleyan, she teaches courses on British and American technology, culture, photography, the role of evidence, and aesthetics of justice and historical storytelling.
Her latest book, The Tichborne Trial’s Many Faces: Photographic Evidence, Facial Recognition, and the Making of Modern Visual Culture, is under contract with Oxford University Press.
The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment, published by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, the Routledge Handbook of American Violence (forthcoming), and the book Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science.
She has also published more than thirty peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and served as editor of four special issue journals.
[1] Recent research awards in the past two years include a National Endowment for the Humanities award for a two-year research investigation of the historical design, engineering, and policy discussions of firearms features from 1750 to 2010 (2023);[5] and a Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times” Fellowship for a project exploring race, violence, and industrialization in the Connecticut River Valley (2022).