Margot's research examines the role of fashion in the legal process of constructing individuals as deviant and criminal subjects according to their dress and appearance, between the end of slavery and the Great Depression. She explores fashion as a critical nexus between the expression of the self and a social world driven by race, class, and sex, and thus a site of legal struggle.
Prior to Berkeley, Margot worked in hospitality. In addition, she interned at the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx, and the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office under Larry Krasner.
B.A. Political Science and History (with departmental honors and highest distinction), Wellesley College, magna cum laude, 2020