I am an associate professor of Modern European History at Oregon State University. I received my PhD from Binghamton University where I worked with Dr. Jean Quataert.

My research focuses on late 19th and early 20th century Germany. My first book, “Trash,” Censorship, and National Identity in Early 20th Century Germany (Cambridge, 2016), traces the history and impact of two national censorship laws created during the Weimar era–the 1920 National Motion Picture Law and the 1926 Law to Protect Youth from Trashy and Filthy Publications.

My current book project, Nazi Girl: Girls and Girlhood in Hitler’s Germany, is both a history of girls and girlhood during the Third Reich and, using girls as an entry point, a reconsideration of the Nazi regime.

Through the course of my research, I have gained expertise in numerous fields, including: the history of popular fiction and early film, German constitutionalism and federalism, censorship policy in Imperial, Weimar, and Nazi Germany, social reform movements, shifting notions of social welfare in Imperial, Weimar, and Nazi Germany, Weimar and Nazi youth policy, Nazi juvenile criminal law, the Hitler Youth and League of German Girls, Germanization policies in eastern Europe during WWII, Nazi-era policies that directly impacted female youth (the League of German Girls, the Pflichtjahr, the Reich Labor Service for Female Youth, and the War Auxiliary Service), the Hitler Youth’s 1937 home building campaign, and Nazi news services.

My research has benefitted from the support of the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University, the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, and the German Historical Institute.