Marissa Croft is a fourth-year student in the Rhetoric and Public Culture Doctoral Program. She completed her BA in Communication Studies and French Literature at the University of Puget Sound and has her MA in Communication Studies from Northwestern University. She recently finished a summer of archival research in France funded by the Social Science Research Council. Marissa’s current research interests include the rhetoric of clothing reform during the French Revolution, 19th-century women’s science education, and finding new ways to conceptualize historical distance through digital and analog means. croft@u.northwestern.edu