I live in Washington, D.C., with my husband and two daughters. I teach at St. Albans School. My book, Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans, has recently been published by LSU Press. My next project will be about murder ballads and country music in the early to mid twentieth century.

The background image is the cover of my book. I also curated an exhibit at the New Orleans Public Library, and Senior Archivist Irene Wainwright created a web version. See it here: http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/hidden/hiddenfromhistory.htm

And you can hear my interview with Susan Larson on WWNO here: http://www.wwno.org/post/spectacular-wickedness-and-edible-books

My essay about Lulu White appears in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 2, edited by Mary Farmer-Kaiser and Shannon Frystak (UGA Press, 2016).http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/louisiana_women2

I wrote the foreword to Pamela Arceneaux's wonderful bibliography of Storyville's blue books, called, Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans (The Historic New OrleansCollection, 2017). http://www.hnoc.org/publications/guidebookstosin.html