Writing about race, gender & culture

Inez ‘Pat’ Patterson: The Swimming Through Segregated Waters in POOL: A Social History of Segregation, Sept. 2021.

Wes Hall’s Journey: One Entrepreneur Addresses Systemic Racism Sept. 2020, Founder’s Journey, HBS.

“Beyond Margins & Milestones: Reconfiguring Women’s History Month” Archives and Public History, March 2017.

“Roaring for Rights: Women & Boston’s Anti-Busing Movement” Archives and Public History, March 2017.

“Caught in the Crossfire: Students’ Reactions to Busing in Boston” Archives and Public History, Feb. 2017.

“Stark & Subtle Divisions: A Collaborative History of Segregation in Boston.” Digital history project launched in May 2015.

“Recipe for Success: Jean Wade Rindlaub’s Influence on American Ideals” in We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life… and Always Has, vol. 2. Praeger, 2014.

“Aesthetic Athletics: Advertising and Eroticizing Women Swimmers” in Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom, University of British Columbia Press, 2013.

Finding aid for Records of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, activists for the New England fishing industry, fishermen, and their families. Schlesinger Library, 2009.

“bell hooks” in Roger Chapman, ed., Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices, M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

Finding aid for the papers of Florynce Kennedy, lawyer, political activist, and civil rights advocate. Schlesinger Library, 2009.

“Women and Basketball” in Steven A. Riess, Melvin L. Adelman, and Patricia Vertinsky, eds., Encyclopedia of North American Sport, M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

“Senda Berenson” in Steven A. Riess, Melvin L. Adelman, and Patricia Vertinsky, eds., Encyclopedia of North American Sport, M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

“Sylvia Woods” in African American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Barbara Johns” in African American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Finding aid for the papers of June Jordan, poet, author, outspoken activist, and champion of equal rights for African Americans. Schlesinger Library, 2007.

“‘One Can’t Shake off the Women’: Images of Sport and Gender in Punch International Journal of the History of Sport, 2002.