Research

Books

‘Perk Up Your Looks and You Along With It’: Postpartum Depression and the Body in 1980s and 1990s US Self-Help Books, Journal of the Social History of Medicine (2026)	“The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (September 2025)
“Spitting on My Sources: Depression, DNA, and the Ambivalent Historian,”Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (Fall 2022)	“A Women’s Health Issue?: Framing Post-Abortion Syndrome in the 1980s,” Gender and History (October 2021)
“Gender, Sexuality, and the State,” co-authored with Jennifer Mittelstadt, in Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed., Ed. Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne Valk, Wiley Blackwell Press, 2021, 279-298.	“Fears of a Nanny State: Centering Gender and Family in the Political History of Regulation,” in Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century, Ed. Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason Williams, University of Chicago 2019.
“Weighing in about Weight: Advisory Power in the Bureau of Home Economics,” in Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times , Ed. Sharon Y. Nikols and Gwen Kay, University of Georgia, 2015.	“Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal,” Journal of American History (March 2011)