book project

I co-edited an anthology about American Girl and Pleasant Company with KC Hysmith, available for pre-order now and expected May 2025

interviews

Judy Blume for Lilith Magazine’s Spring 2023 issue

Sheila Avruch and Judith Arcana of the former Abortion Counseling Service (the “Jane Collective”) for Lilith.org

essays

on Azalea Belles, on anxiety, on being a doula, on baking babka, on loving Gentileschi’s depiction of Judith, on Jewish midwives, on the Tucson Jewish History Museum, depictions of women and addiction in pop culture, reading Boccaccio’s The Decameron during a plague, Yiddish in The Zone of Interest

reviews

on the second (and third) season of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a review of Nicole Krauss’ Forest Dark, Tal Lavin’s Culture Warlords, Emma Seligman’s debut feature Shiva Baby, Sholom Aleichem’s "rediscovered novel” Moshkeleh the Thief, Deborah Levy’s Real Estate, Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus, Masha Rumer’s Parenting With an Accent, Amy Bloom’s In Love, a new collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer essays, season two of Russian Doll, Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn (translated by Anita Norch), The Jews of Summer by Sandra Fox for In Geveb, Cormac McCarthy’s final novels

awards

Women’s and Independent Folklorists’ Award, American Folklore Society 2022

Humanities for the Public Good Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill 2021

D.K Wilgus Fellowship in Comparative Ballad and Folksong Study, UNC-Chapel Hill 2020

Mary Turner Lane Award, UNC-Chapel Hill 2017

political

“The Desert Should Not Be A Death Sentence”-The New York Times

“Silent Sam Deserved To Be Torn Down”-Lilith Magazine

“Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid”-The Harvard Civil Liberties Law Review Blog

“Is Abortion Access a Jewish Value?” and “Don’t Write Off the South on Abortion,” in conversation with Steph Black for Lilith Magazine

“Dispatches From the Post-Roe Carolinas”-Southern Cultures

“Where Do Your Biases About Abortion Lie?”-Lilith Magazine

academic

“Susan Hill at the Supreme Court”-Traces Journal of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, Volume 7

“I Was There”- Southern Cultures

“Black Is Us the Beautiful People”-Southern Cultures

“Mir Zaynen Do!: Yiddish Music and the Promise of a Jewish Future”- the Journal of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (winter 2023)

conference presentations:

forthcoming: “Juniper’s Past and Futures: Between Mythology, Danger, and Knowledge in Folk Medicine and Abortion Care”

Annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, 2024

previous:

“American Girl, the Business of Self-Expression, and the Future of Nostalgia”

Annual meeting of the American Folklore Society October 14th, 2022. Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“In seas/In Raging Waters: Lilith, feminist Jewish consciousness, and the creation of a folktale”

“Demons: Good and Bad” October 27th and 28th, 2022. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Accepted; did not attend.