Kim is the author of “Drinking, Whoring, & Misbehaving Themselves”: Disorderly Houses, Madams, & Prostitution in 19th Century New Hampshire, a 2026 thesis for her MA in History & Archives at Keene State College.

The scope of this work covers an untold part of New Hampshire’s history. It discusses the real lives of the women and men who engaged in historical sex work from 1800 to 1900, with a discussion on laws, propaganda, and the groundbreaking stories of human trafficking in 19th century Manchester and Portsmouth. Covering 2,663 individual source documents, the relationships of the Granite State’s unique geology and its subsequent working waterways to prostitution provides a unique perspective that roots historical sex work to a specific time and place.

Kim is available to give lectures on this topic in-person within New England, and by Zoom or Teams outside of that area. She is also available to provide the data of this research as necessary to other historians, and may be able to provide a printed or digital copy of this thesis with due permission and due credit given.

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