Doctoral Candidate in History
About
My dissertation, "Staging Neighborhood: Making Queens in the Construction of New York's Last Great Park" examines the many phases of Flushing Meadows Corona Park as the catalyst for neighborhood formation, and urban and cultural change in New York City.
2019/2020 Season Producer for Reverb Effect (UM History Department Podcast)
https://lsa.umich.edu/history/reverbeffect.html
Research Interests
20th Century United States; Cultural History; Urban History; Cold War; New York City; Queens, NY; Visual Culture: Oral History; Neighborhood; Race and Ethnicity
Publications
“‘Massy and Classy’: Dressing American Women at Expo 67” in World’s Fairs in the Era of the Cold War: Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress, edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles and Arthur Molella. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2019
Kookie Thoughts: Imagining the United States Pavilion at Expo 67 (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble). Journal of Transnational American Studies, 5(1), 2013
Blog post: “Shopping Queens, Chic and Friendly.” The Gotham Center for New York City History, June 5, 2018. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/shopping-queens-chic-and-friendly
Presentations
“Neighborhood Memories on Display: Rethinking Space and Immigrant Identities,” Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation, University College Dublin, Humanities Institute, September 2019, Dublin, Ireland
“Corona’s Fighting 69: The Politicization of Everyday Life in the Struggle to ‘Save the Neighborhood,’” Organization for American Historians, April 2019, Philadelphia
“Urban Crisis as Personal Loss,” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop: Crises and Critical Moments, November 2018, University of Michigan
“The Soldiers Next Door: The Militarization of Flushing Meadow Park,” Urban History Association, October 2018, University of South Carolina
“Styling Modernity: Fashion as Imperial Cover at Expo 67,” The World’s Fair Since 1945, June 2015 University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
“The Expo 67 Fuller Moment: Promise and Detachment in the Garden of Eden,” The World’s Fair Since ‘64, October 2014. Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“Minidresses, Movies and Chewing Gum: Expo 67 and American Culture on the Edge of Empire,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, June 2014. Lexington, Kentucky.
“Revolutions within Revolutions: the rise of Latin American feminisms” Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, March 2011
