I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University. I am also a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. As a historian of legal culture, childhood, gender, and slavery in the nineteenth-century United States, my current research explores how various forms of unfreedom structured Black children’s lives throughout New England during the years of the Early Republic. I earned an A.B. in Sociology, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and an MPhil in Politics from New College, University of Oxford, where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Before coming to Harvard, I worked in elementary education.