PUBLICATIONS
“Who Wears the Pants? Fashioning Politics on Capitol Hill”, in Palgrave Handbook of Fashion and Politics, edited by Karen Kedrowski, Candice Ortblas, Lori Poloni-Stuadinger, and J. Cherie Stachan, (Palgrave McMillan, 2024)
“Working from the Periphery: The National Association of Fashion and Accessories Designers (NAFAD) and the Promotion of Black Fashion”, in Fashion in American Life, edited by Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters, (Bloomsbury, 2024)
“Clothing as a Site of Memory: The Uses and Legacy of Suffrage Fashion”, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Special Issue: Sites of Feminist Memory, 56, 116 (November 2023): 391-415
“Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Modern Femininity in Early Twentieth Century America,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology edited by Alex Goody and Ian Whittington (University of Edinburgh Press, 2022)
“Democratizing Looks: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Beauty in Early Twentieth Century America,” in Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics, edited by Maxine B. Craig (Routledge 2021)
with Amanda Kuziura and Jennifer Starkey, “Teaching Wikipedia: A Model for Critical Engagement with Open Information,” in Kim Davis Hoffman and Alexis Clifton (eds.), Open Pedagogy: Varied Definitions, Multiple Approaches (Open Source, 2020)
"Fabricating Black Modernity: Fashion and African American Womanhood during the First Great Migration," International Journal of Fashion Studies, 6, 2 (October 2019), 239-260
"Dressing Up for a Campaign: Hillary Clinton, Suffragists, and the Politics of Fashion," in Christine Kray, Hinda Mandell, and Tamar Carroll (eds.), Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election, (University of Rochester Press 2018)
"New Women in Early 20th-Century America," in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. by Jon Butler (Oxford University Press 2017)
“Baby, You Can Drive My Car: Advertising Women’s Freedom in 1920s America,” American Journalism: Journal of Media History, 33, 4, (November 2016), 372-400
“[Re]fashioning the New Woman: Women’s Dress, the Oriental Style, and the Construction of American Feminist Imagery,” Journal of Women’s History, 27, 2, (Summer 2015), 14-36
PUBLIC WRITING AND MEDIA
Monthly Column: “Common Threads,” Saturday Evening Post
“The Fashion Fight that Exposes the Flaw in Trump’s Tariff Logic,” Time, January 7, 2025
“Model Candidate: The Style Lesson Kamala Harris Can Learn from Shirley Chisholm,” The Guardian, August 14, 2024
“On The Move: How Sports Clothes Became Fashion,” Nursing Clio, May 15, 2024
“Women Lawmakers Have Pushed Back Against Senate Dress Codes for Decades,” Ms. Magazine, September 25, 2023
“‘Pins and Needles’ Redux: Theater Can Propel Solidarity and Score Wins for Labor,” Washington Post, July 21, 2023