Ph.D. (August 2019)
she/her/hers
About
My research interests are broadly situated in the fields of nineteenth and twentieth-century German and Pacific histories, with focuses on transnational, cultural, and labor history, the history of German empire and colonialism, postcolonial theory, and race, gender and sexuality studies. My dissertation, “Contested Labors: New Guinean Women and the German Colonial Indenture,” examines the complex social, cultural, and political worlds occupied by indentured New Guinean women under German colonial rule, and situates the labor system within the contexts of evolving, often conflicting, colonial understandings of gender, sexuality, and race.
Fields of Study
- 19th and 20th century Germany and Europe
- 19th and 20th century (Papua) New Guinea and the Pacific
- Imperialism and colonialism
- Gender, sexuality, bodies
- Labor history
Affiliations
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Graduate Student Research Fellow, 2017-18
Institute for the Humanities, Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow, 2016-17
Germanic Languages and Literatures
