I’m a historian of early America who specializes in digital and public history. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas and co-editor of Current Research in Digital History.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University where I edited and produced The Past, The Promise, The Presidency podcast. I earned my PhD from George Mason University in 2023. From 2017–2021, I worked at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media as a Digital History Fellow and a graduate research assistant; I was the project manager for American Religious Ecologies, and a key team member for Mapping Early American Elections, DataScribe, Mapping the University, and For Us the Living. I also teach digital and public history courses like The Digital Past and Digital History: Uncovering Early America.
My research areas include early America, slavery, the eighteenth-century Chesapeake, spatial history, digital history, and public history. My book manuscript, Building the Potomac: Waterways, Commerce, and Enslavement in the George Mason Family, reveals new insights about slavery and the development of the Chesapeake region through the lens of George Mason IV, his family, and the people they enslaved by employing digital analysis and visualizations, and focusing on waterways, aquatic business ventures and local connections.
