Her research interests include legal history and the history of gender and sexuality. She teaches a variety of U.S. history courses and runs the BA program in Law, Technology and Culture. She is currently completing revisions to her book manuscript, The Politics of Marriage in the Era of Women’s Liberation. In it, she explores how legal and political agents worked the category of gender out of marriage, and how a host of lawmakers, judges, activists, and ordinary Americans subsequently struggled to redefine family and marriage without gender. She is also the author of “Men in the House: Race, Welfare, and the Regulation of Men’s Sexuality in the United States, 1961-1972,” published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality in 2011. Essay: Family and Child Custody in Virginia