I graduated from Old Dominion University with an MA in History and Arizona State University with a BA in History. My broad field of focus is Modern European History although I concentrate on nineteenth-century Italian social and cultural history. My master’s thesis explored representations of Italians, both in the U.S. and in Italy, during the mid-nineteenth century prior to the era of mass migrations beginning in the last quarter of the century. I am interested in themes of nationalism, revolution, gender, and identity, particularly as they relate to the Italian Risorgimento. My advisor is John A. Davis.