I am an Associate Professor of modern European history at SUNY Geneseo. 

I hold a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I earned Master’s degrees from New York University and Central European University and a BA from Smith College.

My new book The Youngest Yugoslavs: An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory was published by Indiana University Press in 2025. I am also the author of Metropolitan Belgrade: Class and Culture in Interwar Yugoslavia, published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2018, and Sleater-Kinney’s ‘Dig Me Out’, published by Bloomsbury Academic Press in 2016 as part of the 33 1/3 Series.

I am a portrait photographer based in Rochester, NY.