B.A. European Studies, New York University
J.D. Harvard Law School
Ph.D. History, University of Oregon

• BIS 167 People’s History of the United States
• BISLEP 301 Law, Economics and Public Policy
• BIS 353 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• BISLEP 397 Media and the Law
• BIS 403 Washington DC Human Rights Seminar
• BIS 416 U.S. Constitutional Law
• BIS 490 Gender, Law and Policy
• BPOLST 511 Policy Process and Analysis

I hope students in my classes leave with new ways of thinking about a subject, whether law, race, human rights, policy, gender or history. I want students to develop new critical lenses of analysis that they can then bring to bear on any problems or narratives they come across in the future. To this end, my classes focus on collective learning, involving workshop activities and document analysis along with exposure to numerous types of sources. My research also focuses on education precisely because of my strong belief in quality education as a potentially transformative experience that should be accessible to all.

My research is centered on the interdisciplinary intersections of law, inequality, race and class and the implications of particular historical processes on social justice movements around access to education. I examine both K-12 educational history and the role of law and court rulings in determining the scope and structure of that history, as well as higher education and its unique role in democracy.