Recently on Sunday October 29th, I presented part of my current dissertation research to the public at Chimborazo Park in Richmond, Virginia. The event was called “Buried Histories at Chimborazo Park” and was sponsored by the National Park Service’s Richmond National Battlefield Park. The Confederate Medical Museum is on site at Chimborazo Park, which is…

Historians, educators, and digital humanists: check out the John Mitchell Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race’s newest digital history exhibit, “The Enslaved Naturalist.” The project was created between partners at George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Environmental Science and Policy department, and was funded by…

Recently, I virtually presented at the Association of African American Museums conference (AAAM). I admit I was a bit hesitant; this was my first virtual conference and I was unsure what to expect. Nevertheless, my experience at AAAM demonstrated the possibilities and slight limitations of presenting and attending a completely digital conference. The AAAM staff…

I am excited to share my latest digital project “Mobility in Slavery and Freedom: Mapping Paths of Escape, Enslavement, and Freedom in the U.S., 1830-1850”. This paper was a final project for my digital and computational history course at George Mason in the spring of 2020. The paper visualizes and analyzes the paths of nine…

This past week my digital history class discussed historical digital storytelling and specifically historical games. I played the Oregon Trail for the first time to see what all the hype was about – apparently if you were a child in the 1990s everyone played this game – and had mixed thoughts about it. Overall, I…

Working title: Women and Race in State-Resistive Movements in the U.S., 1800-2019 Scholarship on race, gender, and other identities in social movements in the United States is plentiful, but there is little discussion around the racial diversity between women in American state-resistive movements (protesting against or advocating for state-policies or practices to improve the conditions…

For the first potential topic for an NEH Digital Projects for the Public Proposal, I am thinking of proposing a digital interactive map of my Master’s Thesis “Buried Histories: A Feminist View of Land, Space, and U.S. Universities,” which its’ content can be viewed if you click here for my first digital humanities project. Specifically…

My current course “An Introduction to History and New Media” has given me a whole host of technical skills: how to code in html and css, how to build and maintain a WordPress site (which you are now viewing), and, more recently, how to create a database. Because data comes from human activity and interaction,…

Welcome to my WordPress site. I am a PhD student at George Mason University studying early-American history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. I am interested in the themes of race, gender, class, commemoration, public memory, and space. Feel free to explore my research and facts about me!