Public Scholarship

“For We Were Strangers: Trans Refugees and Moral Panics,” The Revealer (Oct 2022)

“The Dobbs v Jackson Decision in Historical Perspective,” Organization of American Historians: Future of the Past (June 2022)

“People Helping Women Get Abortions Pre-Roe Were Heroes. It Wasn’t Enough.” Slate (June 2022)

“Won’t Someone Think About the Babies?” Lyz Lenz “Men Yell At Me” (May 2022)

“What Everyone Gets Wrong About Evangelicals and Abortion,” Washington Post (May 2022)

“A Theology of Choice,” Brown Alumni Magazine (April 2022)

“The GOP’s Latest Tactic for Targeting Trans Kids,” The Meteor (March 2022)

“The Abortionist,” Perspectives on History (Dec 2021)

“Peering into Windows and Wombs: Reflections on SB8,” Nursing Clio (Sept 2021)

“This Critical Race Theory Panic Is a Chip Off the Old Block,” with Adam Laats, Slate (June 2021)

“Pricks in Public: A Microhistory,” Jezebel (Oct 2020)

“How the ‘Girl Watching’ Fad of the 1960s Taught Men How to Harass Women,” Jezebel (Oct 2020)

“The Deep Ties Between the Catholic Antiabortion Movement and Racial Segregation,” Jezebel (Jan 2019)

“How Flight Attendants Organized Against Their Bosses,” Jezebel (Nov 2018)

“Life Before Roe: The Story of a Back Alley Abortionist,” Jezebel (Sept 2018)

“Why the Courts had to force the Trump administration let a 17 year old have an abortion,” Washington Post (Oct 2017)

“The Surprising Role of Clergy in the Abortion Fight Before Roe v Wade,” Time (May 2017)

“Remembering the Game Show Creator who Created the Gender Wars,” Jezebel (March 2017)

“The Miseries and Heartbreak of Backstreet Abortion,” Nursing Clio (March 2017)

“Faith Reproductive Politics and Resistance,” Nursing Clio (Jan 2017)

“Phyllis Schlafly’s Legacy of Anti-Gay Activism,” Slate (Aug 2016)

“The Death of Jacqueline Smith,” Slate (Nov 2015)

“The Anti-Trans Bathroom Nightmare Has Its Roots in Racial Segregation,” Slate (Nov 2015)

“When Rabbis Broke the Law to Help Women in Crisis,” The Forward (June 2016)

“One Abortion Battle Won – Supreme Court Ruling Invites More Battles,” The Forward (June 2016)

“The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem,” Notches (April 2017)

“Words of Warning for Historians of Sexuality: Indemnity Clauses and Publishing Contracts,” Notches (Oct 2016)

“Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality,” Notches (Jan 2016)

“David Bowie and the History of Sexuality,” Notches (Jan 2016)

“After Roe: Students Engage the Lost History of the Abortion Debate,” Notches (Jan 2016)

“AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro,” Notches (Oct 2015)

“The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States,” Notches (July 2015)

“Doing it with Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality,” Notches (April 2015)

“Straight After Death: Remembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen,” Notches /HuffPo (Feb 2015)

“Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel Rivers,” Notches (Jan 2015)

“Believe it: Finding Religion in the History of Sexuality,” Notches (Nov 2014)

“Introducing Students to the History of Sexuality,” Notches (Sept 2014)

“The Yellow Star and the Pink Triangle: Jews and Gay Rights in the 1970s,” Notches (Aug 2014)

“Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States,” Notches (July 2014)

“Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution,” Notches (June 2014)