Digital + Public History

Scholarly Research Projects

Birthing a Nation Database | Creator

(in development) Digital history project that features a relational database of enslaved midwives in early America

Interactive data visualization built with R

Social Network of the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon, 1754-1799 | Creator

(in redesign) Interactive data visualization built with R for the “Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon” exhibit

screenshot from digital story about enslaved midwives

Finding Kate: A Digital Story | Creator
Digital story of an enslaved woman named Kate who petitioned her enslaver, George Washington, to serve as a midwife for Mount Vernon and to be compensated for that labor

Digital Public History Collaborations

African American Burial Ground, A. P. Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project | Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor

Researching and sharing the multilayered history of Cemetery Hill at Clemson University through digital storytelling and building a relational database

Database of Mount Vernon’s Enslaved Community | Intern and Research Assistant

Relational database that forwards the lives of the men, women, and children who were enslaved at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Plantation

Exhibit image featuring women who were service pilots during WWII

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) of WWII | Curator

Online exhibit curated for the National Women’s History Museum and Google Cultural Institute

Digital History Project Experience at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)

World History Commons | Research Associate

Digital resource with website reviews, primary sources, and teaching modules in world and global history for teachers and students

Maritime Asia: War and Trade | Research Associate

Teaching resource that includes exhibits and a classroom simulation activity on trade powers in seventeenth-century Southeast Asia

The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike | Project Manager

Online exhibit and archive on the Pilbara Aboriginal Strike that occurred in Western Australia following WWII

Eagle Eye Citizen | Senior Content Developer

Online interactive developed in collaboration with the Library of Congress to teach historical and civic thinking skills through primary sources

Teachinghistory.org Website Refresh | Project Manager

Website refresh of teachinghistory.org with new content and updated multimedia

Hidden in Plain Sight Teacher Recertification Course | Teaching Assistant

Online recertification course for Virginia teachers that features asynchronous primary source modules

Graffiti Soldiers: The Civil War from the Perspective of Individual Soldiers | Teaching Assistant

An NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop for Teachers offered in summer 2016 in which teachers explored the Civil War through the lives of individual Civil War soldiers and built online exhibits in Omeka

ABMC Burials and Memorials Database ReDesign | Research Assistant

Redesign and cleaning of the American Battle Monuments Commission’s burials and memorials database