Social media posts, exhibition labels, book-length projects, and everything in-between

Looking for someone to:

  • Shape your exhibition text?
  • Create magazine-style articles to engage wide audiences on your subject?
  • Write a reference guide/theme study about the history your institution interprets, tied to your interpretive objectives?
  • Make your website’s interpretive content more cohesive?
  • Help you fully harness the power of digital, multimedia storytelling?
  • Make your social media speak to the moment and your specificity?

Crafting the written word in various media is my specialty. From working with a social media manager to create snippets from your site’s history to writing a book-length study, I’m here to research and develop your historical content in an engaging way for your audience.

A man holding a book open to a chapter called "Collecting Lincoln."

Projects, Publications, & Bylines

Exhibition Text
Book Chapters
Web Content
Articles
Reference
Long Form
Professional Writing
All Projects
A man standing in front of 3 large graphic panels, each containing four historic images plus text.

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.

Header of a website called "Remembering Lincoln." A collage of images of documents with the overlaid text "Explore how people responded to Lincoln's assassination."

Remembering Lincoln Digital Collection & Programs

Ford’s Theatre Society hired me as project manager for a digital repository of responses to the Lincoln assassination, Remembering Lincoln. After the site’s launch in early 2015—in time for the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination—I led efforts to augment the collection and repurpose the content to engage broad audiences in different ways.

A man speaks in front of a picture of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Ford’s Theatre Interpretive Plan

I served as project manager and contributed to the content of Ford’s Theatre’s first-ever site-wide interpretive plan.

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.

A brochure titled "Downtown Jewish Washington," produced by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and its Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum. The brochure includes a picture of facades of late 1800s buildings, along with a background of a map. A quotation says, "The neighborhood was our whole life," stated by Albert Small in a 1982 oral history. The brochure's tagline says, "Learn more about this historic, continually changing neighborhood in the heart of our nation's capital!"

JHSGW Downtown, Alexandria, Arlington Cemetery Brochures

After years of offering successful walking tours, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington sought to share Jewish history in downtown Washington, Old Town Alexandria, and Arlington National Cemetery more widely. I led creation of printed brochures.

An exhibition panel called Gold and (Quick)Silver, describing the process of extracting gold from ore.

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.

A museum exhibition featuring large photographs, graphic panels, and an interactive table.

Howard Baker Center Exhibition

I developed content for a 2,500 square foot exhibition on the life of Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr.; Tennessee politics; and the functions of U.S. government.

An exhibition graphic panel in front of a wooden fence and a log cabin.

Accokeek Foundation Interpretive Signage

I developed content for outdoor interpretive signage at the Accokeek Foundation’s lands at Piscataway Park, including the National Colonial Farm, the Foundation’s Ecosystem Trail, and Visitor Center.

An exhibition graphic titled "Life at the Blockhouse," in front of a picture of 1700s militiamen in front of a log of a blockhouse. A basket and an iron pot is displayed at front.

Wilderness Road Blockhouse Visitor Center Exhibition

I served as content developer for a small visitor center providing context for a reconstructed Blockhouse where Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail began in southwest Virginia.