PROFESSIONAL WORK & SERVICE
Public Historian & Co-Founder, Omnia History, 2017 – present
Executive Director, Urban History Association, 2020 – present
Member, National Council on Public History Board-Led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, 2019 – present
Editor, Urban History Newsletter, Urban History Association, 2017 – 2020
Steering Committee Member, Gender Equity in Museums Movement, 2019
Chair, Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community, American Association for State and Local History, 2015 – 2017
Board Member, Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society, Chicago, IL, 2014 – 2016
Executive Director, South End Historical Society, Boston, MA, 2009 – 2013
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, U.S. History and Public History, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2020
- Dissertation: “Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Modern Metropolitan Chicago,” Patricia Mooney-Melvin (chair), Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Elliott Gorn
Master of Arts, History, Simmons College, Boston, MA, January 2013
Thesis: “Urban Renewal and Local History in Two Boston Neighborhoods”
Bachelor of Arts, History and Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 2008
Anglo-American Project Archaeology Field School in Pompeii, Italy, through University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, Summer 2005
TEACHING
Instructor, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
- United States History 1865 to the Present
- Western Civilization 1500 to the Present, with “Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791” Reacting to the Past component
- Western Civilization 1500 to the Present
Discussion Section Leader, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
- American Pluralism
- Western Civilization 1500 to the Present
Teaching Assistant, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.: Then and Now
- Western Civilization to 1500
WORKSHOPS & CERTIFICATIONS
Online Teaching Course, Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy, Loyola University Chicago, Spring 2018
Teaching Effectiveness Pedagogy Seminar, Loyola University Chicago, 2016 – 2017
Oral History Certificate Workshop, Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Summer 2011
AWARDS & HONORS
- 2019 President’s Medallion, Loyola University Chicago
- 2018 – 2020 Career Diversity Fellowship, the American Historical Association and Loyola University Chicago
- 2018 – 2019 Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago (declined)
- 2018 – 2019 Teaching Scholars Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago (declined)
- 2013 – 2018 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Loyola University Chicago
- Spring 2018 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting Graduate Student Travel Award
- Summer 2017 King V. Hostick Scholarship, Illinois State Historical Society and Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
- 2016 Regent’s Award, Loyola University Chicago
- Inducted 2015 Alpha Sigma Nu, the Honor Society of Jesuit Institutions of Higher Education
- Inducted 2014 Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society
