A Maine native, she also earned her BA in History at the University of Maine in 2006. She completed a MA in Early American History at the University of New Hampshire in 2008.In the spring of 2016, she earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Maine. Her dissertation, entitled “‘The Place of Happiness’: Recipes, Cookbooks, and the Negotiation of Domesticity in Anglo-America, 1830-1880,” traces the transformation in the practice and meaning of women’s household labor in the northeastern United States and Ontario in the mid-nineteenth-century.