A study of kitchen gardening across New York State from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, traced through suburbanization and the school garden movement and read against social class, pedagogy, religion, and the Country Life and Nature Study movements.
Reconstructs the partnership structure and the labor and supply relationships behind one restaurant across three addresses, from city directories, newspapers, obituaries, and federal case files.
A shorter version, "Bamboo Inn 竹園: A Look Back at a Chinese Restaurant's Flourishing Period in Indianapolis," appeared in Preservation at the Crossroads (Indiana DNR-DHPA), May 2026.
Architectural historian and preservation planner, with a background in landscape architecture.