Finding and synthesizing primary and secondary sources, images, artifacts
Looking for someone to:
- Find what you need at the U.S. National Archives or other D.C.-area repositories?
- Analyze and synthesize your research?
- Find and select the right images for your interpretive project?
With a Ph.D. in History and familiarity with archives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and beyond, and experience researching and sourcing content for an array of interpretive projects, I can help you with your research needs for whatever kind of project you’re doing.
Sample Projects
Ford’s Theatre Site History Projects
During my nearly 9 years at Ford’s Theatre, I collaborated with colleagues to augment research on the site’s history and repurpose that content into programs and resources for different audiences.
“The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian”
Published in Contingent, 2022.
Presentation: U.S. Citizens Who Moved to Mexico’s Interior, 1821-46
For the Museum of South Texas History’s Sunday Speaker Series Online, 2022.
My Dissertation
“Racing Ahead of Manifest Destiny: U.S. Migration, Citizenship, and Commercial Expansion in Mexico’s Interior, 1821-53.”
George Mason University Department of History.
Defended July 2021.
Book Chapter on Ford’s Theatre, 1865-Present
Co-written with Colleen Prior, Aysha Preston, Sarah Jencks, and Kenneth Foote. Published in Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage, edited by Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas & Angela M. Person, 2020.
Book Chapter on the Lincoln Museum, 1893-1932
Co-written with Sara Levine Bhatia. Published in U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation: Never Neutral, edited by Laura Schiavo, 2023.
Book Chapter on Theatrical, Museum Exhibition, & Museum Technology Processes
“Closer Than They Appear: Drawing Lessons from Development Processes for Museum Technology, Exhibitions, and Theatrical Productions.” Co-written with Max Evjen. Published in Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conference, edited by the Ad Hoc Museum Collective, 2019.
JHSGW Alexandria Walking Tour
To accompany the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington’s Northern Virginia outreach efforts and a Civil War exhibition that traveled to Alexandria’s history museum, I created a walking tour of Jewish sites in Old Town Alexandria.
Gold Mining Camp Museum at Monroe Park
I developed content for interpretive signage and sourced images and music for a recreated Depression-era gold mining camp.