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Education

George Mason University
Ph.D., History, 2023
Dissertation: “Potomac Networks: Waterways, Commerce, and Enslavement in the George Mason Family, 1700–1828.”
M.A., History, George Mason University, 2017
Graduate Certificate, Digital Public Humanities, George Mason University, 2017

Taylor University
B.A., History, International Studies, 2014, summa cum laude

Academic and Research Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, 2023–present.
Graduate Lecturer, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, 2021
Graduate Research Assistant, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2018–2021
Digital History Fellow, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2017–2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University 2016

Digital Written Work

“Case Study: American Religious Ecologies,” DataScribe, 2022, <https://datascribe.tech/casestudies/CaseStudy_AmericanReligiousEcologies.pdf>.

“Maryland’s Political Geography in the Early Republic,” Mapping Early American Elections, 2019, <https://earlyamericanelections.org/essays/06-swain-geography-of-politics.html>.

“R Tutorial,” Mapping Early American Elections, 2019, <https://earlyamericanelections.org/blog/2019/04/30/r-tutorial.html>.

Digital Projects

Current Research in Digital History, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, http://crdh.rrchnm.org. Editor, 2020—; Editorial Assistant, 2018–2020.

Mapping the University, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, https://mappingtheuniversity.rrchnm.org/. Graduate Research Assistant for Geospatial Analysis, 2021.

DataScribe, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. https://datascribe.tech. Graduate Research Assistant, 2020–2021.

American Religious Ecologies, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, http://religiousecologies.org. Project Manager, 2019–2021.

Mapping Early American Elections, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, http://earlyamericanelections.org. Graduate Research Assistant for Data and Geospatial Analysis, 2018–2019.

For Us The Living, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, http://forustheliving.org. Digital History Fellow, 2018.

Presentations

“Potomac Bound: A Spatial and Network Analysis of the People Enslaved by George Mason,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 7, 2023.

“Trade Webs and Waterways: Visualizing Eighteenth Century British Commercial Networks Along the Potomac River,” Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS) Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 12, 2022.

“DataScribe: Transcribing Structured Historical Data,” Workshop with Jessica Otis, Megan Brett, and Daniel Howlett, Datafication in the Historical Humanities Conference, German Historical Institute, June 2, 2022.

“Mapping the Masons,” Invited lecture, Gunston Hall Board of Regents, Online, October 2, 2021.

“Using DataScribe for Large Scale Transcription Projects in the Humanities,” Invited talk with Lincoln Mullen, Digital Lagniappe Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, Online, April 16, 2021. 

“Trade Webs and Waterways: The Transatlantic and Potomac Commercial Networks of George Mason III and William Eilbeck, 1700-1765,” Lightning Round, Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists (VCEA), Online, January 30, 2021. 

“New Directions in Digital History,” Roundtable, Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists (VCEA), Richmond, VA, January 25, 2020.

“Visualizing Democracy: Voting, Political Parties, and the Mapping Early American Elections Project,” Roundtable, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA, July 19, 2019.

“Eagle Eye Citizen: Civics Interactives,” Fairfax County Public Schools Professional Development, Burke, VA, August 22, 2018.

Teaching Experience

HIST 390: The Digital Past, Graduate Lecturer, George Mason University, Summer 2021
HIST 100: History of Western Civilization, Teaching Assistant, George Mason University, Spring 2016

Public History Experience

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C.
Web, New Media, & Outreach Intern, November 2016-May 2017

Sully Historic Site, Chantilly, VA
Education, Historic House, and Special Events Intern, October 2016-August 2017

Green Spring Gardens, Alexandria, VA
Historical Resources Intern, June 2016-August 2016

Conner Prairie, Fishers, IN
Historical Interpreter, March 2008-August 2015
Youth Experience Intern, October 2009-August 2010

Fellowships and Awards

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, 2023–2025
Provost’s Doctoral Research Fellowship, George Mason University, 2022–2023
Provost’s Summer Research Fellowship, George Mason University, 2022
Department of History and Art History Travel Research Fellowship, George Mason University, 2022
Residential Fellowship, Center for Humanities Research, George Mason University, 2022
Research Fellowship, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, 2021–2022 
Louise and Rudolf Fishel New Media Fellowship, George Mason University, 2021
Joseph and Dorothy Censer Fellowship in History and New Media, George Mason University, 2020
Digital History Fellowship, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2017-2018
Randy Beth Clarke Fellowship in American History, George Mason University, 2016
Kurt Andrew Dodd Scholarship, George Mason University, 2016

Academic Service

History PhD program representative, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA), George Mason University, 2021–2022
Secretary, History Graduate Student Organization (HGSO), George Mason University, 2021–2022 
Re-Appointment Committee, Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2020

Digital Skills

Skills and methodologies: computational humanities, network analysis, database creation and management, GIS mapping, map georectification, 3D modeling, audio and video editing
Programming and Web Development Languages: R, HTML, Jekyll, Python, Django, D3.js
Tools: QGIS, ArcGIS, Carto, Leaflet, PostgreSQL, Airtable, Tableau, Gephi, Palladio, GitHub, Photoshop
CMS: Omeka, DataScribe, WordPress, Drupal 

Affiliations

Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/center-for-presidential-history, 2023–present.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, https://rrchnm.org, 2017—2023
Center for Mason Legacies, George Mason University, https://legacies.gmu.edu, 2022—2023
Center for Humanities Research, George Mason University. https://chr.gmu.edu/. 2021—2023