I am an historian focusing on sexuality, gender nonconformity, criminalization, and state power. My first book project, Bad Queers: Sex-Offender Laws and LGBTQ People in Modern America, is in consideration at the University of Chicago Press. Bad Queers examines the expansion of sex-offender laws in the United States after World War II, and how those laws had the effect of creating a hierarchy of “good” and “bad” LGBTQ people. My second book project in progress, The Children’s Crusade: Governing Child Sexuality in the Modern Transatlantic World, examines the development of state responses to child sexual abuse from the Enlightenment to the present.