Digital History Lab
History Department, Florida Atlantic University
I am developing the Digital History Lab at FAU’s history department in the future Kurt & Marilyn Wallach Holocaust and Jewish Studies Building. The lab will provide students with hands-on experience using the latest digital methods–such as mapping, oral history, coding, and AI tools as appropriate–to research, interpret, and create history projects for broader public audiences. Currently, I am building interdisciplinary partnerships across campus and with public-facing institutions in the region, digitally inflecting my history courses, and applying for grants to support the lab’s future workshops, tools, and student research. The lab will equip students with transferable skills in historical research, digital literacy, community engagement, and project management.
Pearl City History Museum
Developing Interracial Social Change (DISC), Boca Raton, FL
I am a consulting historian as a Member of the Advisory Planning Board for the future Pearl City History Museum at the NGO Developing Interracial Social Change (DISC) in Boca Raton, FL. I help shape a community-led vision for sharing the story of Pearl City, a Black neighborhood foundational to the city’s history. In close collaboration with DISC, the Boca Raton Historical Society, and the Boca Raton Housing Authority, we are planning community engagement sessions, researching and digitizing historical materials, and developing oral history projects, that center the voices of residents who built this neighborhood. I bring my expertise in digital curation and public history to ensure these stories are preserved, shared, and honored.
Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum of South Florida
College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University
I serve as a consulting historian as a Member of the Planning Committee for the future Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum at FAU. I am contributing to exhibit design, ethical curation practices, and the assessment and digitization of sensitive archival objects. By centering marginalized voices and navigating complex histories with care, I ensure that the museum becomes a space of remembrance, education, and civic responsibility.
Chimborazo Park Conservancy
designated 501(c)(3)
I am currently a Board Member and Historian for the non-profit organization Chimborazo Park Conservancy in Richmond, Virginia. I work with community leaders and local residents to advise on site-specific histories related to the park, from early settlement of Indigenous history to present-day use. I authored an article on behalf of the conservancy about the new Virginia State Department Historic marker placed at the park that commemorates the history of an emancipated African American community who previously lived on-site during the Reconstruction era. I also advise the conservancy on potential ideas for funding for outdoor exhibits and coordinate members with other community stakeholders such as Fourth Baptist Church, Church Hill Association, and the Richmond National Battlefield Park.
National Parks Service
Richmond National Battlefield Park (RNBP), National Park Service
I was a historical consultant and public facilitator for the National Park Service for a project funded by the National Park Foundation Inclusive Storytelling Grant: Reconstructing Richmond: Telling the Stories of Native Americans and Formerly Enslaved Persons at Chimborazo, 2024-2025. I worked with historians, park rangers, museum curators, and community stakeholders to develop and execute community outreach and listening sessions, about RNBP’s Chimborazo Medical Museum. This outreach effort informed which stories the community is most interested in so that RNBP can produce interpretive media from a more informed perspective.
HBCU History Culture and Access Consortium
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History & Culture, and Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the HCAC project’s goal is to digitize and increase equitable access to archival and museum objects across a cohort of five HBCUs and to support institutional capacity building. I served as a Project Coordinator and Omeka S trainer for over 75 participants from 2021-2023.
Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator
Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg
I was selected for a Research Fellowship at the University of Luxembourg’s C2DH for the spring 2023 term, where I worked as a team member on the Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator (DHARPA) that seeks to develop a digital research tool for historians.
Mapping The University
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Funded by a 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant. MTU is a digital public history project and open educational resource that provides archival sources and analysis about the construction of George Mason University (GMU) and Old Dominion University (ODU).
Enslaved Naturalist
John Mitchell Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race at George Mason University
Funded by the National Parks Service’s 400 Years of African American History Commission and published in 2021, this digital public history project explores African Americans’ contributions to the area of natural history between 1619-1863. I served as Digital Humanities Coordinator and co-authored two essays about Harriet Tubman’s life based on archival research, digital mapping, and interviews with scholars and community members in Maryland.
Divided Union
C.W. Bright Pixel Prize Winner for Best History & New Media Project from George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Awarded C.W. Bright Pixel Prize in 2022, I co-created this digital public history project with Janine Hubai to contextualize the history behind Confederate statues, symbols, and base names that were nationally protested in the U.S. in the summer of 2020.
Mobility in Slavery and Freedom: Mapping Paths of Escape, Enslavement, and Freedom in the U.S., 1830-1850
George Mason University, History PhD Program
A project that visualizes and analyzes the paths of nine individuals who escaped from slavery during the antebellum era. Using R programming language to map nine different paths in the leaflet package, I argue that mobility was integral to slavery, freedom, and the liminal.
Buried Histories: A Feminist View of Land, Space, and U.S. Universities
Georgia State University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies MA Program
The digital and condensed version of my Master’s thesis that explores the different representations and commemorations of the histories of settler colonialism, slavery, and whiteness from a feminist perspective. Researchered in 2019 and published online in 2020.
