cv
Academic cv available as a .pdf file.
Student Work at Mason:
Spring 2023 Teaching Assistant - Two Honors courses on science in society with Prof. Jim Trefil
2022 Research Assistant - Black Belt Brooklyn digital humanities project with Dr. Amaka Okechukwu
2019-2021 Research Assistant - Community Informatics Lab with Dr. Myeong Lee
Library Experience:
2017-2020 Librarian - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
2012-2015 Rare Books & Research Services Librarian - James Madison University
2009-2011 Rare Books Librarian - Medical School at Washington University in St. Louis
July 2008 Professional Field Experience - Monticello, Charlottesville, VA
2008 Professional Field Experience - Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, VA
Fall 2007 Research Assistant - GrantSource Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Spring 1998 Law Library Assistant - Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, Madison, WI
1993-1994 Archival Processing Assistant - Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
1994-1995 Artifact Cataloger - Museum Archaeological Project, Madison, WI
History Blogs:
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum.
Media Appearances:
“Madam President.” America’s Hidden Stories. Lone Wolf Media for Smithsonian Networks, 2021.
“Pandemic 1918.” America’s Hidden Stories. Lone Wolf Media for Smithsonian Networks, 2019.
“History and Romance: Love Stories of Five Virginia Presidents.” The Free Lance-Star (February 8, 2017).
“Every Breeze Issue Digitized in Scholarly Commons Archive.” The Breeze (September 18, 2014).
“De Humani Corporis Fabrica: On the Fabric of the Human Body.” Outlook: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (April 2011).
Committee Experience:
2018 to present Advisory Board, Staunton Public Library
2017-2020 SAA: International Archival Affairs Section’s (IAAS) Steering Committee
2017-2019 University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative
2014-2016 RBMS Budget & Development Committee
2014-2015 JMUse Café Planning Committee
2013-2015 JMU Arts & Humanities Collections Cluster
2010-2011 Becker Library Serials Weeding Planning Group
Additional Coursework:
2019 “Databases for Humanists.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria, BC.
2018 “XML-TEI Document Encoding, Structuring, Rendering and Transformation.” European Summer University in Digital Humanities, Leipzig, Germany.
2017 “Ethical Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria, BC.
2014-2015 Nine credits of graduate coursework with the English Department of JMU.
2014 “Archives: Principles & Practices.” Society for American Archivists Conference.
2012 “Teaching the History of the Book.” Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA.
2010 “Rare Book Cataloging.” Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA.
Languages:
Fluent in German.
Experienced with reading Norwegian and Medieval Latin.
Academic Associations:
American Library Association: ACRL
American Historical Association
Hansischer Geschichtsverein
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publication
International Committee of the Blue Shield
Sixteenth Century Society
Selected Teaching Experience:
Spring 2009 Piedmont Virginia Community College
Fall 2006 Semester at Sea
Spring 2006 University of Portland
2005-2007 Concordia University-Portland
2002-2005 University of Oregon
2000-2001 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1999-2000 Central European University
Community Teaching
Spring 2020 “Woodrow Wilson’s Childhood in Reconstruction.” James Madison University Lifelong Learning Institute.