resume (in brief)

[ on digital matters and a dissertation ]

A Work in Progress

Education



George Mason University
PhD Candidate, American History

B.A. Liberal Arts
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois

Recent Employment

  • Digital History Associate, Public Projects, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2010-present
  • Program Manager, National History Education Clearinghouse, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2007-2010
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University 2007-2010
  • Historian, Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Women’s Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, 2001-2006

Selected Papers and Projects

  • “The Braddock Heritage Project: Analog Historians Enter the Digital Age.” Minor field statement requirement for PhD candidacy, 2009
  • A Look Back at Braddock District. A local history website pushed from early Omeka to Omeka 1.4.1 (2011)
  • Early projects: Photoshop. Image Assignment, Clio I with Professor Paula Petrik
  • “Women in a Man’s War: Who Writes History?” Conference paper presented at Third National Conference, Teach Vietnam Teachers Network, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, June 21-25, 2006
  • Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present. Contributing author, ABC Clio, May 2006
  • “Faces of the Fallen,” Author, Producer, Documentary Exhibit Film, 2005
  • World War I Nurses: The Journal of Emma Elizabeth Weaver, web publication, 2005
  • “American Service Women in the Global War on Terror.” Curator, writer, producer, oral historian. 2005.
  • “The Juxtaposition of Ambivalence and Need: Women Army Physicians, Post-World War II.” Conference of Army Historians, 2004
  • “African-American Women during the Korean War Era.” Conference paper presented at No Longer Forgotten: African Americans in the Korean War, 1950-1953, Morgan State University., 2003
  • American Servicewomen in the Global War on Terror, Exhibit Producer and Curator, Women’s Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, 2004
  • Over There: Army Nurses During World War I, Author, Producer. Documentary Exhibit Film, 2002

Projects In Progress

  • Tredegar: a Southern Ironworks in post-Civil War Virginia. Dissertation research and writing
  • Pacific Air War Archive. A digital archive in-progress collating official and personal collections of World War II veterans
  • Tredegar: a Legendary Ironworks. Dissertation-related Omeka site incorporating Scripto and various plugins
  • Teaching the Jewish Past. Exploratory work investigating possiblility of topically-focused Teaching Commons

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