I am an Instructor in the Department of History at Colorado State University and the Secretary of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. I hold a PhD in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Minnesota.

My interdisciplinary research draws on the history of science, technology, and medicine, legal history, and disability history to study intersections of mental health, addiction, legal personhood, and citizenship. I am especially interested in how medicolegal systems construct insane persons, habitual drunkards, and addicts as pathologized kinds of personhood and govern them across clinical, legal, and carceral spaces.