Ik ben als historicus werkzaam in Londen. Ik schrijf columns voor de Volkskrant, en mijn essays en opiniestukken zijn verschenen in NRC en De Groene Amsterdammer. In oktober 2024 verschijnt De mythe van het gezin bij Uitgeverij Pluim.

Ik werk aan een portret van de tweede feministische golf, met een focus op de frictie tussen feminisme en heteroseksualiteit. Voor dit werk word ik ondersteund door het Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten en het Cultuurfonds.

I am a historian of modern Europe. I am a 2023-25 Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London. My research interests include the intellectual and social history of the twentieth century, the history of feminism, and the history of sexuality, intimacy and love. My monograph-in-progress examines 1970s feminist thought and praxis, and the transformation of gender-based violence—in public perception, social science, and the law—from a private matter to a state concern. I am at work on a second book-length research project on the history of ecofeminism.

I hold a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an M.A. from the University of Amsterdam.

My academic writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Global Intellectual History, CSSAAME, New German Critique, German Politics and Society, and several edited collections including The Routledge Companion for Gender and Reproduction and The Routledge Handbook in the History and Sociology of Ideas (2023). I previously served as Managing Editor of International Labor and Working-Class History. Alongside my academic work, I am writing a trade book about the historical and contemporary tensions between feminism and heterosexuality. It is slated to appear in 2025.

In 2021 I received an Emerging Scholar Award from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. My work has been generously funded by organizations including the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, DAAD, the Cultuurfonds, the American Historical Association, the New York Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, the Central European History Society, the Council for European Studies and the Columbia Heyman Center for the Humanities.