Mara Keire is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on urban sexuality in the United States, especially during the early twentieth century. Keire is the author of For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933 (2010). Her current book project, Under the Boardwalk: Rape in New York, 1900-1930, combines the personal, political, and intellectual. A sexual assault survivor, Keire sued the man who raped her under New York’s Child Victim Act. Her account, “In the Aftermath: Reflections by Survivors of Gender-Based Violence”, was published by Tasteful Rude (30 November 2021).