Recent Publications

• "Networked Memories: Remembering Barbara Jordan in 21st century Immigration Debates" in Winkler's Networking Argument (2019).
• With Kristen Lucas, "Gossard Girls are Good Girls: Labor Activism at a 1949 Garment Factory Strike," in Gold and Enoch's Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (2019).
• Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 (2018)

• With Michele Kennerly, "Moving Rhetorica" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2018)

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​Broadly speaking, my research explores communication about politics, gender, debate, education, and social change. 

As a humanities-based communication scholar, my goal is to better understand how individuals and groups use rhetoric and argumentation to negotiate identity, power, and social difference. As a feminist scholar, I pay particular attention to how gender, race, class, sexuality, and memory shape the rhetorical strategies of historically marginalized groups. My research has appeared in academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Women's Studies in Communication, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. A full CV is available on my departmental page.

My first book, Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945, is available from Michigan State University Press (2018) and other online retailers. Spanning a historical period that begins with their exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in co-educational intercollegiate competitions, Debating Women highlights the crucial role that debating organizations played as nineteenth and twentieth century women sought to access the fruits of higher education in the United States and United Kingdom. Debating Women has been awarded the 2019 James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address and the 2018 Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award from the American Forensic Association.

​My current research projects focus on public memory about the politician Barbara Jordan and the history of international debate and argumentation. Currently, I serve on the editorial boards of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Women's Studies in Communication, Argumentation and Advocacy, the Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, and Timely Interventions.