I am an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies at Middlebury College. I completed my Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. I use translation projects across my courses, including in classes such as: Intro to Queer Critique; The Politics of Reproduction: Sex, Abortion, and Motherhood; Queering Food; Feminist Engaged Research; and Beyond Intersectionality: Developing Anti-Racist Feminisms.

My scholarship focuses on LGBTQ activism, reproductive justice, rurality, and food justice. I am writing a book on gay visibility politics and queer rurality and co-producing a documentary film on the same topic. My work is published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, Twenty Years of Memorializing: The Cultural Legacy of Matthew Shepard, Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. For more information, visit my website:

I graduated from Middlebury College in 2018. While I studied neuroscience, I dabbled quite a bit across departments and loved all of my courses within the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies department in particular. After taking two courses with Professor Thomsen and appreciating the creativity and great learning process involved with the translation project curriculum, I was excited to take on this project: creating Not a Trivial Pursuit during my final college semester. I hope this serves as a fun and useful resource for other students, teachers, and anyone interested in using and creating social-justice minded projects for themselves!