I am an historian focusing on sexuality, gender nonconformity, criminalization, and state power. My first book project, Bad Queers: Sex-Offender Laws and LGBTQ People in Modern America (in production) examines the creation of a hierarchy of “good” and “bad” LGBTQ people in the American carceral state in the 1970s and 1980s. My second book project in progress, The Children’s Crusade: Governing Child Sexuality in the Modern Transatlantic World, examines the development of state responses to child sexual abuse from the Enlightenment to the present.