EDUCATION

Doctorate of Philosophy in History, Florida International University, Expected Spring 2023

Dissertation: “Beyond the Surface: Columbia, Material Culture, and the Consumption of Early American Nationalism, 1790-1865.”

Masters in Arts in History, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Thesis: “Invoking America: Representation, Revolution, and Republican Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century American Iconography.”

Graduate Certificate in Museum Collections Management and Preservation Care, George Washington University

Bachelors in Arts in History and Art History, University of North Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Historical Consultant, Self-Employed, South Florida, 2016 to Present

Curator and Historian, Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada, FL, 2022

Curatorial Research Assistant, Miami Military Museum, Miami, FL, 2020

Curator and Museum Educator, Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL, 2017 to 2018

Collections Manager, Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum, Miami, FL, 2016

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2015 to 2020

Curator and Collections Manager, Duxbury Rural & Historical Society, Duxbury, MA, 2014 to 2015

Collections Specialist, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2014

Executive Director and Curator, Maria Howard Weeden House Museum and Garden, Huntsville, AL, 2013

Assistant Curator & Registrar, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 2011 to 2013

Exhibitions Assistant, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC, 2010

Education Intern, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, 2008 to 2009

Education Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, 2008

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Dissertation Workshop: Carved into Flesh: Sailors, Scrimshaw, and Tattoos, 1820-1860,” Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 3, 2020.(Canceled due to Covid-19)

"Archiving in the Moment of Black Lives Matter: Creating Archival Collections at the City of Miami Black Police Precinct and the Historic Hampton House." Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Miami Beach, FL, June 6, 2018.

“‘You’re FIRED!’: The Dismissal of Abolitionist Minister Samuel Joseph May.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 6, 2018.

“Beyond the Surface: Early 19th Century Liverpool and Staffordshire Ceramics as Archives.” Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Nuremberg, Germany, May 28, 2017.

“The ‘Gentle’ Rabble-Rouser: Samuel Joseph May, The Radical Abolitionist Minister Who Threatened the Union.” Early American Republic Graduate Student Conference, City University of New York, New York, NY, May 12, 2017.

“The Sons and Daughters of Columbia in Early Republican Material Culture.” International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History, University of Texas in Arlington, Arlington, TX, October 20, 2016.

“Going to War, Going to be a Son of Columbia: The Quest for Manhood and the Pursuit of an Honorable and Noble Citizenry in Early American Print Culture.” Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Miami Beach, FL, June 9, 2016.

“Invoking Columbia: Representation, Revolution, and Republican Motherhood in Late Eighteenth-Century American Iconography.” Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 1, 2016.

“Reimagining Bradford: Adding the Feminist Perspective into Museum Tours.” Women, Sexuality, & Gender Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, October 23, 2015.

DEPARTMENT PANELS

"Surviving Comprehensive Exams," Department of History, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2019.

"Public History Career Paths," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2019.

"Museum Careers," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2017.

"Career Paths for History Majors," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2016.

AWARDS

2020

• Research Assistantship, Florida International University

• Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University

• Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab Assistant, Florida International University 

2019

• Doctoral Evidence Acquisition (DEA) Fellowship, Florida International University 

• Darden Pyron American Cultural History Fellowship, Florida International University 

• Melon Grant for Underrepresented Groups: Conference Registration, OAH Annual Meeting

• Mellon Grant for Underrepresented Groups: Conference Travel Grant, OAH Annual Meeting

• Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University

2018

• Graduate & Professional Student Committee Travel Grant, Florida International University

• Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy

• Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University

2017

• Summer Institute Travel Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy

• Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy

• Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University

2016

• Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy

• Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University

2015

• Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University

• Best Thesis Award, Department of History, University of Alabama in Huntsville 

• Outstanding Graduate Achievement: Best Thesis, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville 

2014

• History Academic Scholarship, University of Alabama in Huntsville 

2013

• History Academic Scholarship, University of Alabama in Huntsville 

• Military Spouse Scholarship, MyCAA and the Department of Defense

• Museum Studies Tuition Scholarship, George Washington University 

2012

• Military Spouse Scholarship, MyCAA and the Department of Defense

• Museum Studies Tuition Scholarship, George Washington University