early America, slavery studies, women’s history, and digital/public history
Digital/Public History Projects
Scholarly Research Projects
Birthing A Nation Database | Creator
(in development) Digital history project that features a relational database of enslaved midwives in early America
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
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
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