Developing innovative projects that encourage learning and community action for the common good.
I love combining my skills in research, writing, editing, product management, service design, strategy, and education all together to do things like:
- Investigate and cultivate audiences and users
- Build content strategy across channels
- Design frameworks and narratives for compelling communications
- Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data
- Developmentally edit the work of others
- Prioritize the big picture and execute final details
At Digital Scholar I’m producing the Sourcery app in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, where I’m an Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Digital Media & Design.
Previously, I worked on several projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. In my last role I led the PressForward research and development project in scholarly communications as Co-Principal Investigator and Research Assistant Professor. In addition to developing the PressForward plugin to facilitate the aggregation, curation, and dissemination of scholarship, I edited two experimental publications: Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities.
I also have taught in college classrooms, museum galleries, and public venues. As a Research Associate and an ACLS Public Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, I developed exhibitions, public programming, web sites, and scholarly books for the National Museum of American History.
Outside of academia, I have advanced digital audience engagement and strategy for Environmental Defense Fund, a global non-profit, through marketing content and campaigns, user experience research, and testing.
At Indiana University I studied music performance and earned a BA in History and Latin. My PhD is in American Studies from George Washington University, where I researched immigration history, visual culture, and public understandings of the past. View a full CV.
