Kimberley started on August 26, 2013, at UW-Green Bay as an Assistant Professor, Democracy and Justice Studies. She received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 2008. She previously taught at the University of Baltimore, where she was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and a research fellow in the Law School. Her research focuses on the growing importance of intimacy and emotion in marriage in the early twentieth century U.S., and has been published in Law and History Review.