She received her PhD in History from Stanford University in 2011 and went on to work as a postdoctoral lecturer in two of Stanford’s liberal arts programs before moving to Madison in 2013. She is currently completing her first book manuscript, Civilizers in Their Own Backyard: Interwar Poland and Its Eastern Borderlands; an article based on part of the book, entitled “Borderland Modernities: Poles, Jews, and Urban Spaces in Interwar Volhynia,” will appear this year in the Journal of Modern History. She is also beginning work on a second book project, which will explore the everyday role of Polish consulates in Western Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas between the wars.