An abridged version of my CV is below. A full PDF version is also available for download.
EDUCATION
George Mason University
PhD, History and Art History, May 2024
Dissertation Title: “Imagining Acadiana: Cajun Identity in Modern Louisiana”
University of New Orleans
MA, History, concentration in Public and Local History, 2016.
Master’s Thesis: “Picturing the Cajun Revival: Swallow Records, Album Art, and Marketing an Identity of South Louisiana, 1960s-1970s.”
BA, History with Honors, minor in Sociology, summa cum laude, 2013.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Current Positions
Project Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, funded by the Mellon Foundation to enhance collaboration and community partnerships. Coordinate ongoing projects and reporting, strategize new digital humanities initiatives, organizing programming, and facilitating relationships with community partners. November 2023-present.
Digital Humanities Consultant, National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellowship. Digital lead on strategy for public and internal digital products; support collaboration between and across 31 NPS project teams in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence through training, networking opportunities, and project management. September 2022-May 2027.
PUBLICATIONS
“Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording Industry with Digital Tools,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Special Issue: New Approaches to Music and Sound, Co-author with Matthew Karush and Michael O’Malley.
RECENT DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
- Frenchmen Notes, Project Associate, March 2023-present.
- New Orleans Historical, Managing Editor and Contributing Author, May 2014–July 2016; Fall 2022-present. A project of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies.
- Hearing the Americas, Project Associate, 2017-2022. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES SKILLS
- Technical Skills: R programming language, text analysis, digital mapping, digital storytelling
- Platforms: Omeka, Curatescape, Drupal, Microsoft Access, WordPress, AirTable, KnightLab Suite
- Other skills: humanities grant writing, archival and database design, metadata specialist, tutorial and documentation creation, project management and content strategies, Omeka consulting
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- “Digital Tools for History Teaching and Research,” commentator, Southern Historical Association, Kansas City, MO, October 2024.
- “Only a Southern Song: The Beatles and the American South,” panelist, Southern Historical Association, Kansas City, MO, October 2024.
- “Frenchmen Notes: Documenting and Digitizing Urbanity and Socio-Cultural Memory,” roundtable panelist, Condition Report NCPH Mini-Conference, Lafayette, LA, October 2024.
- “Frenchmen Notes: Building a Public Digital Humanities Project on a New Orleans Music Scene,” roundtable panelist, Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, LA, April 2024.
- “Louisiana and the Pop 1960s,” roundtable panelist, Louisiana Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2024.
- “Flat Town Music Company: Recording Popular and Traditional Music in 20th Century Louisiana,” panelist, Society for American Music, Detroit, MI, March 2024.
- “Promised Land: New Directions in Cajun and Zydeco Music, Culture, and Historiography,” plenary session roundtable panelist, Louisiana Historical Association, Alexandria, LA, March 17, 2023.
- “Cajun Culture and Civil Rights: The Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project in Louisiana,” panelist, Organization of American Historians, Boston, MA, March 2022.
- “ReSounding the Archives: Bringing Historical Sheet Music Back to Life,” poster presentation, National Council on Public History, Hartford, CT, March 2019.
- “(Re)MappingRegional Radio: Using Fan Mail to Visualize Networks of Listening in the Cajun Lapland,” chair, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch, New Orleans, LA, March 2019.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
- “Staging Acadiana: Pageantry and Politics in Louisiana,” invited lecturer, “Performing Louisiana in the Nation’s Capital” event, Capitol Park Museum, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2023.
- “Sound Bytes: Music History and the Digital Humanities,” invited lecturer, Grambling State University, Grambling, LA, October 2022.
- “Can you hear it: technology, sound, and digital humanities,” invited lecture, Xavier University of Louisiana, Professor Sakinah Davis, MUSH1080: Introduction to World Music, February 2021, October 2021.
- “That Sound’s Spatial,” Johns Hopkins University Digital Humanities Consortium, invited presentation, October 22, 2021.
- “Understanding Omeka,” guest lecture, Xavier University of Louisiana, Professor Kim Vaz-Deville’s DGHU1000 course, October 2019.
- “Fais Do Do Instant Mix: Mass Culture and Cajun Identity, 1930-1970,” invited speaker, inaugural Center for Louisiana Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Dupré Library, live streamed and broadcast through AOC Community Media, January 2019.
- “Digital Humanities and Music History,” guest lecture, Dr. Elizabeth Ozment’s undergraduate course, University of Virginia, Spring 2018.
REVIEWS
Reviews of digital tools on World History Commons:
TEACHING
- DGHU1010: Introduction to Digital Humanities Part Two, Xavier University of Louisiana, Spring 2021.
- DGHU 1000: Introduction to Digital Humanities Part One, Xavier University of Louisiana, Fall 2020.
- HIST 390: The Digital Past, George Mason University, Fall 2019, Spring 2020.
- “Writer’s Blocks: A Literary History of the French Quarter,” special project advisor, University of New Orleans, Dr. Connie Atkinson’s historical methods course, Fall 2015.
- “New Orleans Historical Tour-Building Unit,” special project advisor, University of New Orleans, Dr. Charles Chamberlain’s public history courses, Spring 2015, Fall 2015.
- “Spaces of Confederate Memory Project,” special project advisor, Tulane University, Dr. Kate Adam’s Reconstructing America course, March 2016.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- Doctoral Research Scholar Award, GMU, AY 2021-2022
- Provost Office Summer Writing Fellowship, GMU, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022
- Joseph and Dorothy Censer Fellowship, GMU, 2021
- LSU Special Collections Research Grant, 2019
- Jamie and Thelma Guilbeau UL Lafayette Research Collections Grant, 2018
- Louis Round Wilson Library’s Summer Visiting Research Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, 2018
- C.W. Bright Pixel Prize for History & New Media, GMU, 2018
- Digital History Fellowship, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2016-2018
SERVICE
- Louisiana Historical Association Publications Committee
- Committee member, June 2023-June 2026
- Louisiana Music Museum Advisory Board, Acadiana Arts Council, Lafayette Louisiana
- Committee member and Museum Program Development subcommittee, June 2023-present
