I have a PhD from the department of sociology at UCSB. Prior to matriculating at UCSB, I earned a BA from Smith College and an MA in media and communications from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In August, I will begin a two year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. My areas of interest are social movements, gender, and culture.

My dissertation, “Social Movement Continuity and Abeyance: Feminist Mobilization on U.S. College Campuses,” is a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative), comparative study of U.S. college students' feminist mobilization. I explore the feminist identities, practices, and activist participation of college students on three different kinds of campuses. My research provides empirical evidence to address questions about the evolution of feminist identity and the persistence of the feminist movement. It also attends to larger theoretical questions pertaining to the role of social movements inside institutions and emerging forms of political contention.